Reason Quotes - Page 85

I love the irony of movies. I really do. For whatever reason, I'm incredibly intrigued by the irony of reality in a motion picture.

When one chooses to be a writer, psychologically there's a reason for that because you like the isolation and you like to be by yourself and you are by nature timid.

The question to ask is whether the risk of traveling to space is worth the benefit. The answer is an unequivocal yes, but not only for the reasons that are usually touted by the space community: the need to explore, the scientific return, and the possibility of commercial profit. The most compelling reason, a very long-term one, is the necessity of using space to protect Earth and guarantee the survival of humanity.

He who dares not (reason), is a slave.

The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.

To make the peaks higher. [His reason to target philanthropic funding to only the best university science departments.]

One of the reasons I'm drawn to civil libertarianism as opposed to communitarianism is that I don't worry so much about the rights of the majority; a majority is quite capable of enforcing and protecting its own rights.

Every day you have less reason not to give yourself away.

With fiction, there’s no reason why everything you write shouldn’t be amazing. Nobody’s stopping you from making up better stuff.

here's a payoff for everyone. The reason we hang on to self-defeating behaviors is because it's easier not to take responsibility.

Without the constantly living and articulated eperience of absurdity, there would be no reason to attempt to do something meaningful. And on the contrary, how can one experience one's own absurdity if one is not constantly seeking meaning?

The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.

Every line, everything you do in life, should have a motive and a reason. Every one of us should have a motive and a reason, most of the time, to accomplish all the things that we want in life.

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

The reason I am so passionately committed to the psychedelic thing is because I see it as radical, and if this is not the moment for radical solutions, what is?

Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.

Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a point.

Part of the reason I wrote the book was I wanted to understand for myself why such good people let themselves get treated so badly.

we are all supposed to think of reasons to live.

I don't have time' is the single most frequently given reason for living fractional, perpetually indentured lives, for not living fully or freely. Because time is life, when we say we don't have enough time, we are admitting that we don't have enough life.

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

Who am I kidding? I have no reason for being here other that the fact that I want to be near her.

Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason.

To walk into the Jefferson memorial is to be in a temple of the pure idolatry of reason