Reason Quotes - Page 17

Throughout history governments have been chronically short of revenue. The reason should be clear: unlike you and me, governments do not produce useful goods and services that they can sell on the market; governments, rather than producing and selling services, live parasitically off the market and off society.

If you stay alive for no other reason do it for spite

Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.

You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.

The only good reason to have money is this: so that you can tell any SOB in the world to go to hell.

Play stimulates the parts of the brain involved in both careful, logical reasoning and carefree, unbound exploration.

Christianity is reasonable in virtue of the impossibility of the contrary.

Evolution, as a mechanism, can be and must be true. But that says nothing about the nature of its author. For those who believe in God, there are reasons now to be more in awe, not less.

The Wall will be standing in 50 and even in 100 years, if the reasons for it are not removed.

I market for the same reason a pilot keeps his engines running once he is off the ground.

She just happened to feel like it. Wasn’t that after all, the only reason there was? Had she ever had a less selfish, more complicated reason for doing anything in her life?

Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method.

However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.

Hell is the impossibility of reason.

The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person.

I really think everything happens for a reason.

There is reason to believe that voluntary activity, more than highly developed intellect, distinguishes humans from the animals which stand closest to them.

The loss of reason seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.

God gave us intestines for a reason. I'm not keen on surgery. It's too extreme. All it took was one of those plastic surgery shows to see how violent it is.

The only reason to do business is to make money; that's the only reason for doing business.

Reason should investigate its own parameters before declaring its omniscience.

You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.

Faith goes beyond reason. It goes beyond what you can see. But it is as real as anything you can touch or feel.

[Bach is the] reason I became a musician

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.