Reason Quotes - Page 86

... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing.

Every day is amazing, even when it's awful, because everything is for a reason. I know that this horrible thing that's happening today is going to bring something so amazing.

Locke, whom there is no reason to suspect of being a favorer of idleness or libertinism, has advanced that whoever hopes to employ any part of his time with efficacy and vigor must allow some of it to pass with trifles.

Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.

I'm an appalling flyer. I get very tense, although I no longer weep uncontrollably for no reason - I just sob if there's turbulence.

Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.

Our faith can reach beyond the limits of current reason.

The worst reason to do magic is the desire to display your superiority to your fellow humans.

Maybe I am looking for the reason why I exist.

For the soundest of evolutionary reasons man appears at his best when times are worst.

If people find me attractive, it would be for reasons that anybody finds anybody attractive. It's something that comes from within, and it manifests itself physically.

the reason for revolution is so the good things in life circulate.

To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.

The reason I'm a Yankee is that George Steinbrenner out hustled everybody else.

Know that you were made [the way you are] for a reason.

Why do we cling to life and why are we afraid of death? You may not have thought about it. The reason why we cling so much to life and why we are afraid of death is just inconceivable. We cling to life so much because we do not know how to live. We cling to life so much because really we are not alive. And time is passing and death is coming nearer and nearer. And we are afraid that death is coming near and we have not lived yet.

Reason always stands in need of being purified by faith

Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?

A reasonable fine is such as the law will judge to be so . . . but what a reasonable fine is, and who shall be the judge of it, the law has established no rule.

We distrust our heart too much, and our head not enough.

It wouldn't kill you to get me an iced coffee." "No, but not getting killed doing something is not a very compelling reason to do it.

Are you okay?' she asked me. Of course,' I said. 'Why wouldn't I be okay?' There are lots of reasons why you might not be okay.' There are lots of reasons why anyone might not be okay,' I said.

If I had a choice, if I had understood earlier that the reason my days were all the same was because I wanted them like that, perhaps.

There is no tragedy, only the unavoidable. Everything has its reason for being: you only need to distinguish what is temporary from what is lasting.

Reasonable men are not reasonable when you're in the bubbles which have characterized capitalism since the beginning of time.