Quotes about reason

„You shall create beauty not to excite the senses
but to give sustenance to the soul.“

—  Gabriela Mistral Chilean poet-diplomat, writer, educator and feminist. 1889 - 1957

„"Film star," "movie star" — whatever they want to try to call you is limiting, in the sense that I think an actor has to be able to play characters. To separate these things — you know: "leading man," "action hero," "character actor," stuff like that — I guess if I want to be close to anything, it would be a character actor, which is what I think an actor should be. So any of that "movie star" stuff, I just don't buy it. It just doesn't make sense to me.“

—  Johnny Depp American actor, film producer, and musician 1963

Quoted in "'Johnny Depp - From Hell' special," http://www.johnnydeppfan.com/interviews/From%20Hell%20Special.htm ITV (January 2002)

„When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.“

—  Viktor E. Frankl Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor 1905 - 1997

„Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.“

—  Victor Hugo French poet, novelist, and dramatist 1802 - 1885

„If I do not submit to the conventions of society, if in my dress I do not conform to the customs observed in my country and in my class, the ridicule I provoke, the social isolation in which I am kept, produce, although in an attenuated form, the same effects as punishment in the strict sense of the word.“

—  Émile Durkheim French sociologist (1858-1917) 1858 - 1917

Source: Rules of Sociological Method, 1895, p. 3

„I never had any hesitation or regrets in this sense. My life has been enriched by excellent human relations, work and interests. I have never felt lonely.“

—  Rita Levi-Montalcini Italian neurologist 1909 - 2012

Of the fact that she never married; quoted in Associated Press obituary.

„Everything makes sense a bit at a time. But when you try to think of it all at once, it comes out wrong.“

—  Terry Pratchett, book Only You Can Save Mankind

Only You Can Save Mankind (1992)

„I have no sense of pleasure or pain, and I stay as I have always been. Sometimes He draws me outside, and sometimes He takes me inside and I am completely withdrawn. I am nobody, all of my actions are done by him and not by me.“

—  Sri Anandamoyi Ma Hindu saint 1896 - 1982

Gopinath Kaviraj, Sri Sri Ma Anandamayi: Upadesa O Prasnottara, p. 1
By followers

„Nico's voice was like broken glass. "I- I wasn't in love with Annabeth."

"You were jealous of her," Jason said. "That's why you didn't want to be around her. Especially why you don't want to be around… him. It makes total sense.“

—  Rick Riordan, book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

„There’s no way that Michael Jackson or whoever Jackson should have a million thousand droople billion dollars and then there’s people starving. There’s no way! There’s no way that these people should own planes and there people don’t have houses. Apartments. Shacks. Drawers. Pants! I know you’re rich. I know you got 40 billion dollars, but can you just keep it to one house? You only need ONE house. And if you only got two kids, can you just keep it to two rooms? I mean why have 52 rooms and you know there’s somebody with no room?! It just don’t make sense to me. It don’t.“

—  Tupac Shakur rapper and actor 1971 - 1996

„Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humor; you gotta be able to smile through all the bullshit.“

—  Tupac Shakur rapper and actor 1971 - 1996

„In life there are going to be some things that make it hard to smile. Through all the rain and pain you got to keep your sense of humor and smile for me now. Remember that.“

—  Tupac Shakur rapper and actor 1971 - 1996

„The objective of education reform is to creat learning individual, organization, and society. An educated person or the authentic learning outcome should possess the following abilities and characteristics which are based on Thai cultural heritage and appropriate level of education: good physical and mental health, critical thinking, intellectual inquisitiveness, professionalism, sense of responsibility, honesty, selfsacrifice, perseverance, team spirit, adherence to democracy, and love for King, Country and Religion.“

—  Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

The Reason and the objective of Education Reform

„I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.“

—  Oscar Wilde Irish writer and poet 1854 - 1900

„Without admitting it they sense that their lives would be completely intolerable as soon as they no longer clung to satisfactions which are none at all.“

—  Theodor W. Adorno German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist known for his critical theory of society 1903 - 1969

Section 10
Culture Industry Reconsidered (1963)
Context: The phrase, the world wants to be deceived, has become truer than had ever been intended. People are not only, as the saying goes, falling for the swindle; if it guarantees them even the most fleeting gratification they desire a deception which is nonetheless transparent to them. They force their eyes shut and voice approval, in a kind of self-loathing, for what is meted out to them, knowing fully the purpose for which it is manufactured. Without admitting it they sense that their lives would be completely intolerable as soon as they no longer clung to satisfactions which are none at all.

„Good intentions are useless in the absence of common-sense.“

—  Jami Persian poet 1414 - 1492

An argosy of fables, p. 240
about himself, Extracted from Baharīstān-e- Jami

„Yet if the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the ways of the immediate generation before us in a blind or timid adherence to its successes, "tradition" should positively be discouraged. We have seen many such simple currents soon lost in the sand; and novelty is better than repetition. Tradition is a matter of much wider significance. It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labour. It involves, in the first place, the historical sense, which we may call nearly indispensable to anyone who would continue to be a poet beyond his twenty-fifth year…“

—  T.S. Eliot, book Tradition and the Individual Talent

Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)

„We must preserve the sense of unity and the sense of diversity and multiplicity. We must recognize that the One and the Many are the same thing viewed from different angles. The One is the Many. The One is manifested only in and through the Many. It has no separate existence apart from the Many. Equally the Many are the One. Even during their temporary separation, they are always part of the One, and always united with the One. Every one of us is always part of the One, and can unite with the One at any time we choose“

—  Alexis Karpouzos 1967

Source: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/14108295.alexis_karpouzos?page=2

„Great men of action never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job.“

—  Oswald Mosley, book My Life

My Life (1968), Ch.12.