Reason Quotes - Page 120

To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware that the herd exists beyond their exile; they are an aspect of it. But when the herd no longer exists, there is, for the herd creature, no longer entity, a part of no whole; a freak without a place. If he cannot hold on to his reason, then he is lost indeed; most utterly, most fearfully lost, so that he becomes no more than the twitch in the limb of a corpse.

As a studio, you have to have a niche. You have to provide a service and there has to be a reason for your being around.

Gentelmen heve ever been more temperate in their religion than common people, as having more reason.

Why don't I have enough money? The answer is obvious. Money is how people are measured. What you are worth is what you are worth. The reason I am not worth very much is because I am not worth very much. Nothing could be simpler.

No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.

Public reason arguments can be good or bad just like other arguments.

Peace surely is a good reason, yes. But there are other reasons too.

The idea of public reason has to do with how questions should be decided, but it doesn't tell you what are the good reasons or correct decisions.

I can get very depressed by a review that is unfair, unreasonable, and totally destructive.

Indu'd With sanctity of reason.

Those whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme

Our reason is our law.

Most brain scientists have not taught 4th grade, and don't know very much about the classroom, even though they might study learning in some detail. Most education professionals, who often know a tremendous amount about the classroom, don't know much about the brain. That is one of the reasons why I am so skeptical about applying brain findings to the classroom.

He (Dave Brower) is an emotionalist in an age of dangerous reason.

I'm just trying to keep things normal around the house, because there's no reason why things shouldn't be normal.

There's a reason screens are only this thick.

Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.

The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it.

The only reason I went for that goal is that I wanted to say: 'Now, mummy-daddy, will you love me?'

It is the business of the teacher ... to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign.

I tell employee of T-Mobile, "Listen, if some of this doesn't make sense to you, what should make sense is the reason I'm telling you - I respect you as an owner and as a partner and I'm going to tell you this all the time. Feel free to tune out."

There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.

There's no reason you should write any novel quickly.

Very, very broadly speaking, you can put directors into two areas: One for whom you work, and the other with whom you work. And I prefer the latter, for obvious reasons. It's a great relief to feel that you're working with someone rather than for someone. You don't feel that you're being tested, as it were.