Reason Quotes - Page 20

Everybody dies. There’s nothing you can do about it. Whether or not you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God. (Although there’s no question a belief in God would come in handy. It would be great to think there’s a plan, and that everything happens for a reason. I don’t happen to believe that. And every time one of my friends says to me, “Everything happens for a reason,” I would like to smack her.)

There's a reason I'm known - to bring people to Allah, to God.

I don’t want to say everything happens for a reason, but every day is lined up right next to the other one for a reason. The best you can do is do each day well with kindness and as a good person.

Reason as an organ for perceiving the true nature of reality and determining the guiding principles of our lives has come to be regarded as obsolete.

The real reason for health claims is well established: health claims sell food products.

Let your desires be ruled by reason.

For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.

You don't become a rock star for no reason.

Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder.

The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.

There's no reason for unhappiness if you're living with nice design.

Human reason is by nature architectonic.

Nihil est sine ratione. There is nothing without a reason.

For I am verily persuaded the generality of preachers talk of an unknown and unfelt Christ; and the reason why congregations have been so dead is, because they have had dead men preaching to them.

We love without heeding reason, and cease to love in the same manner.

The power of the people and the power of reason are one.

Do not believe anything on the mere authority of teachers or priests. Accept as true and as the guide to your life only that which accords with your own reason and experience, after thorough investigation. Accept only that which contributes to the well-being of yourself and others.

Reason can discover things only near,--sees nothing that's above her.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

It is just as necessary to forgive ourselves as it is to forgive others, and the principal reason why forgiveness seemed so difficult is because we have neglected to forgive ourselves.

Be happy for no reason is the most authentic form of happiness

There is no reason to hit a woman. And I was just like, really? I could give you, like, 17 right off the top of my head.

Unshakable faith is only that which can face reason in all human epochs.

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.

Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.