Reason Quotes - Page 42
The reason most folksongs are so atrocious is that they were written by the people.
Song: Clementine, Album: More of Tom Lehrer
It's one of the reasons I became a writer, to be able to smoke in peace.
Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.133, Vintage
Samuel Johnson (1968). “Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.251, Yale University Press
Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.190, W. W. Norton & Company
It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.
Richard Hofstadter (2011). “The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it”, p.231, Vintage
Reason is Life's sole arbiter, themagic Laby'rinth's single clue.
Sir Richard Francis Burton (1880). “The Kasîdah (couplets) of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî: A Lay of the Higher Law”
Song: Short People, Album: Little Criminals
"Letters to a Young Poet". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke. Letter Seven (May 14, 1904), 1929.
Peter Kreeft, Ronald K. Tacelli (2009). “Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics”, p.9, InterVarsity Press
Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it.
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.133, Macmillan
There is only one reason to do anything: as a statement to the universe of Who You Are.
Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.48, Penguin
There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.
Mohsin Hamid (2000). “Moth Smoke”, p.193, Penguin Books India