Reason Quotes - Page 79

For some reason focusing on destruction and mortality is more poetically exciting to me than hope and love.

It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.

Now if the religious skeptic is right, we can know nothing about God. And if we can know nothing about God, how can we know God so well that we can know that he cannot be known? How can we know that God cannot and did not reveal himself—and perhaps even through human reason?

No one has ever described the place where I have just arrived: this is the emotion that makes me want to travel. It is one of the greatest reasons to go anywhere.

Reason and memory are nearly always at odds.

Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.

Then you will have to trust me. Beyond logic, beyond reason, beyond hope, trust me.

Our minds are specifically adapted to developing certain theories, and we have a science if the theories that are available to our minds happen to be close to true. Well, there is no particular reason to suppose that the intersection of true theories and theories that are accessible to the mind is very large. It may not be very large.

Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside.

Man must not rely on pure reason; he must mix faith with it.

Ain't no reason for me to kill nobody in the ring, unless they deserve it.

Unreason is in the same relation to reason as dazzlement to the brightness of daylight itself.

The reason I'm travelling so much is because of reasons that weren't completely planned. Several of the shows became successful and were invited to go to other places and they've all happened at similar times.

I envision a future where there'll be 300 million reporters, where anyone from anywhere can report for any reason. It's freedom of participation absolutely realized.

Sacred texts always offend reason.

An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.

Life is too short to torture yourself for no reason.

You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place.

For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.

I recommend against a wooden squat rack, for much the same reason that I recommend against a wooden car.

He [the Statist] is unmoved by reason, evidence, and history.

A proof is that which convinces a reasonable man; a rigorous proof is that which convinces an unreasonable man.

Never settle. There is no reason to rush.

The only reason I have the career I have is that I didn't quit.

If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.