Reason Quotes - Page 47

Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.

Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason

Follow the masters! But why should one follow them? The only reason they are masters is that they didn't follow anybody!

The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.

Take a look at the bombing of Serbia in 1999. The US was quite open about the reasons for the bombing. A main reason was to preserve stability and credibility. Serbia was interfering with stability, meaning that it was the one part of the Balkans that was not integrated into the Western-dominated (mostly US-dominated) system.

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Faith is not reason's labour, but repose.

Throw off those chains of reason and your prison disappears.

I often feel like books find us for reasons, and we read them when we need them the most.

Can reason be an idol? Certainly. The philosophy of rationalism puts human reason in the place of God as the source and standard of all truth.

The reason why principles are so important is because principles make life predictable.

All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.

The reason why Nokia has been built in Finland is simply because Finland was very far behind in terms of infrastructure, so it was relatively easy to implement new technology.

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason.

At the end of reasons comes persuasion.

Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.

A legal broom's a moral chimney-sweeper, And that's the reason he himself's so dirty

My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.

It requires real strength to love Man. And to love him despite all invitations to do otherwise, all provocations and all reasons why one should not.

I'm a reasonable guy, but I've just experienced some very unreasonable things.

For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression.

In every moment there is a reason to carry on.

I think sometimes the very reason we go through something is so that we can be empathetic with another person later on.

the reason God made February short a few days was because he knew that by the time people came to the end of it they would die if they had to stand one more blasted day.