Reason Quotes - Page 80

I love to see folks use reason if they have got any.

He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected.

The only reason we find structure in stories is because it's there naturally in human interaction, and in the way that people tell stories.

There is no reason why capitalists and entrepreneurs should be ashamed of earning profits.

one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be true in prose.

You know what they say, 'You have to work at wisdom; you have to take pains to be reasonable, but to be foolish, just let yourself go.

No gangster is ever happy when he's at peace. The main reason he's in the business is to eliminate his enemies.

Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason.

The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.

Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.

I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.

I learned that there's no reason why people decide they like music when they do.

The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.

So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time.

I think women go crazy for a reason. It's not like it just happens.

The No. 1 reason women stay in abusive relationships - because they're not able to take care of themselves financially. It's also the No. 1 reason why women go back.

The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses.

The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities.

If I play, it will be for one reason: my fans.

It's a sin to hate, and for that reason alone, we must not hate the Normans... We can, however, thoroughly dislike them, Alice.

The only reason I became a writer was so I could exist on a piece of paper.

The philosophy of reasoning, to be complete, ought to comprise the theory of bad as well as of good reasoning.

Reason is also choice.

The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.

Very broadly speaking, you can put directors into two areas: One for whom you work, and the other with whom you work. And I prefer the latter, for obvious reasons.