Reason Quotes - Page 69

We pity people too often for the wrong reasons.

Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.

Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.

I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason.

In their palate alone is their reason of existence. [Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.]

I have no intent. I have no reason to live, that's all. When I'm gone, I don't want to be remembered.

No one has ever understood anything better by assuming that there is no reason for why it is the way it is.

Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness.

Indeed, it would be great if we could all be liberated through reason, but I think it only gets us part of the way. After all, someone may have a very logical view, but for other reasons we may still fail to hear what that person says, or we may turn their words around so that they are understood to say the opposite. The task is really to find ways of addressing deep-seated forms of fear and aggression that make it possible to hold to manifestly inconsistent views without quite acknowledging them.

What farmers require is, that the prices should be moderate, and the markets steady and for this reason I did, in 1826, 1827, and 1828, take the course which I would now recommend to the House.

Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species.

Reason must sit at the knee of instinct and learn reverence for the miraculous instinctual capacity for creation.

Yo can’t reason someone out of something he didn’t reason himself into.

The #1 reasons are unsuccessful is their inability to lead themselves.

Custom does often reason overrule.

Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created

But as in wailing there's nought availing, And Death unfailing will strike the blow, Then for that reason, and for a season, Let us be merry before we go.

Reason also is choice.

Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.

Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.

Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed

Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.

My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.

The standard reason for Thanksgiving doesn't mean nothing to me.

Interest makes all seem reason that leads to it.