Quotes about reason

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“We meet wonderful people, but lose them
in our busyness.
We’re, as the saying goes, all over the place.
Steadfastness, it seems,
is more about dogs than about us.
One of the reasons we love them so much.”

“I love Twinkies, and the reason I am saying that is because we are all supposed to think of reasons to live.”

“But hardly anybody ever finds out that their actions really, actually, hurt other people! People don’t get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don’t stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.”

“That's another reason I keep putting marriage off. I know I want something like what you two share, and I'm not sure I've found it yet. I'm not sure I ever will. And with love like that… they say anything's possible, right?”

“Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.”

“I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.”

“Nothing in this world happens without a reason. That we are all exactly where we are supposed to be, and that the pieces of the puzzle have a tendency to come together when you least expect it.”

“How different this moment feels, for so many reasons. I tell myself that no two loves are identical - but that I don't have to compare anymore.”

“Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired…”

“You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.”

“Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting.”

“The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit.”

“Religion humanizes this universe, makes us feel important and loved. We are not animals governed by uncontrollable drives, animals that die for no apparent reason, but creatures made in the image of supreme being”

“She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.”

“So you're trying to make her happy despite the fact that the reason she's unhappy in the first place is you," said Simon, not very kindly. "That seems contradictory, doesn't it?"
"Love is a contradiction," said Jace.”

“The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other,… but to beeach other.”

“For reasons of my own I take note of the way people act when they’re around mirrors.”

“Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch?”

“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”

“You are the reason why he exists on this earth. You don't have the right to abandon him just because he's inconvenient or has trouble in school.”

“My reasoning, if one can call it that, was inflamed by the scatter shot passions of youth and a literary diet overly rich in the works of Nietzshe, Kerouac, and John Menlove Edwards…”

“Emotions by their very nature are not reasonable things.”

“Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.”

“Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.”

“Wizard's Third Rule
Passion rules reason, for better or for worse.”

“I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.”

“What was the point in such loneliness among people. At least if you were by yourself, you had a good reason to be lonely.”

“Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your zip code.”

“Sometimes a legend that endures for centuries… endures for a reason.”

“It is not given to us to know what difference we can make, and perhaps we can make no difference at all. But that is no reason not to make the attempt," said Saliman quietly. "The Light shines more brightly in the darkness.”

“Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.”

“The best reason for a knitter to marry is that you can't teach the cat to be impressed when you finish a lace scarf.”

“Don't Keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason”

“If a person fears God, she has no reason to fear anything else.”

“Once in a while it happens that I vomit up a bunny… it's not reason for one to blush and isolate oneself and to walk around keeping one's mouth shut.”

“Why does anyone commit murder?' he asked in a low voice.
'I-'I blinked.'How should I know?'
'Three reasons,' Christopher said. He held up one finger. 'Love.' Another finger. 'Revenge.' And finally, a third finger. 'Profit…”

“Who says there has to be a point?" He asked. "Or a reason. Maybe it's just something you have to do.”

“There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.”

“I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours.”

“Desires should never be justified,' Tehol said, wagging a finger. 'All you end up doing is illuminating the hidden reasons by virtue of their obvious absence.”

“Twice we stood beside each other at the altar, Rosie. Twice. And twice
we got it wrong. I needed you to be there for my wedding day but I was too
stupid to see that I needed you to be the reason for my wedding day. But we
got it all wrong.”

“Percy tried to remember. He really did. For some reason, Annabeth and he had visited a spa and decided to destroy it. He couldn't imagine why. Maybe they hadn't like the deep-tissue massage? Maybe they'd gotten bad manicures?”

“The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.”

“There’s a reason we are drawn to the light. A reason why we fear darkness. It’s important to be terrified and unnerved about certain things. That way we will choose another path. The path that leads us to truth and love.”

“The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide.”

“The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.”

“Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember what this flesh has gone through; I dream of what it may go through.”

“Things do happen for a reason, but do we like the reason? Rarely.”

“Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types.”

“yes is a pleasant country…
love is a deeper season
than reason”

“I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.”

“there is no reason why anyone should understand how it works… and of course no reason why anyone should care … unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all its corners is a beautiful thing.”

“I don t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.”

“It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice”

“Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.”

“I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.”

“If suffering like hers had any use, she reasoned, it was not to the sufferer. The only way that an individual's pain gained meaning was through its communication to others.”

“Causes have a way of tainting your reason until a person takes much bigger risks than sanity would otherwise allow.”

“You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason.”

“To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.”

“Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.”

“A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds: it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity. In this sense, and only this sense, I am a deeply religious man.”

“Until he gives you a reason not to trust him, behave as though you trust him.”

“His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times.”

“There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons… You'll wait and wait.”

“I know you’re going to find this hard to believe, but for some reason I don’t understand, I actually like you…most of the time. (Simone)
Well, you also love Jesse. Obviously your taste in men leaves a lot to be desired. (Xypher)”

“Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot.”

“As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to.”

“Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters”

“Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right,
By these we reach divinity”

“There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.”

“Caleb could be so testy for no known reason. At times, it was like dating a woman with irritable bowel syndrome. Or rabies.”

“Why Paris? Paris needs no reason. Paris is its own reason.”

“Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.”

“It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.”

“We have reason to be afraid. This is a terrible place.”

“And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.”

“there's a reason regular people don't appear on TV: we're boring.”

“I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.”

“Missing you?" she giggled incredulously. "I could cheerfully murder you."
"I'd come back to haunt you," he threatened with a grin.
"And that," she said, "is the only reason why I haven't tried.”

“God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.”

“We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.”

“When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe”

“… wanting things for the wrong reasons can turn anyone's life into a marshmallow on a stick over a hot fire: impossibly messy and eventually consumed, one way or another.”

“The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.”

“A Conformist is a man who declares, "It's true because others believe it" - but an Individualist is NOT a man who declares, "It's true because I believe it."
An Individual declares, "I believe it because I see in reason that it is true.”

“A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into?”

“The most important rule there is, the Wizard's Sixth Rule: the only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.”

“We all have reasons
for moving.
I move
to keep things whole.”

“If it can be verified, we don't need faith… Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.”

“The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.”

“He'd kill you all right. No sweat. But for the wrong reasons. Amateur's reasons. Of course, you'll be just as dead.”

“Men and boys always want to go fight. They are always looking for a reason to go to war. It is the saddest thing. They have this abiding notion that war is fun. And no history lesson will convince them differently.”

“Here, for whatever reason, is the world. And here it stays. With me on it.”

“It's of no use to look back and say, "I should have been different." At any given moment, we are the way we are, and we see what we're able to see. For that reason, guilt is always inappropriate.”

“A computer chatted to itself in alarm as it noticed an airlock open and close itself for no apparent reason.
This was because Reason was in fact out to lunch.”

“[…] I've come to the conclusion that the artist can not justify life or come up with a cogent reason as to why life is meaningful, but the artist can provide you with a cold glass of water on a hot day.”

“You…you need to move on,” I managed. Yes, that was a sound reason. “You need to find someone else. You know I don’t—that I can’t. Well, you know. You’re wasting your time with me.”

He remained firm. “It’s my time to waste.”

“The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity.”