Reason Quotes - Page 21

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

When Reason died, then Wisdom was born.

A photograph is a photograph, a picture, an image, an illusion complete within itself, depending neither on words, reproductive processes or anything else for its life, its reason for being.

Our brains are separate and independent enough from our genes to rebel against them.. we do so in a small way everytime we use contraception. There is no reason why we should not rebel in a large way too.

When something happens, we always say it happens for a reason.

Gratitude isn't a tool to manipulate the universe or God. It's a way to acknowledge our faith that everything happens for a reason even if we don't know what that reason is. ~Melody Beattie, 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact, pg. 34.

Reason, you'll always be half-blind.

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.

Neither tolerance nor intolerance is grounded in science and reason, but they are themselves acts of faith grounded in social custom and the politics of expediency and power.

Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?

Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.

Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable

It doesn't take much to lose everything, just a little departure from reason

People do things for "their" reasons, not ours. So find their reasons.

So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason - to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?

Those entrapped by the herd instinct are drowned in the deluges of history. But there are always the few who observe, reason, and take precautions, and thus escape the flood. For these few gold has been the asset of last resort.

The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery.

Nothing nice you ever do for anyone is for no reason.

What you put out is what you get back, and the reason so many are so short of money is that they put little or nothing out

I'm 47 years old. I couldn't compete with Beyonce. I'm not competing with anyone. I've already established myself as an artist. I've been in this business for 30 years. There's no reason for me to compete with anyone.

God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.

There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.

there are times when life's ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed

There is never a reason to lose hope. Jesus says: “I am with you until the end of the world.