Reason Quotes

Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders.

He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.

I've never been a fan of just doing. I like to do things for a reason.

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

I perfectly understood President Obama's attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It's the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.

That is one reason so many of the Japanese pictures are not good, they cannot spare all the footage necessary for that bow, which is repeated over and over again.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

I always have awkward relationships with the ladies for whatever reason. I don't know and so here we are. I was able to sort of take all of those terrible, terrible, terrible dates and turn them into a money making venture.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

The biggest reason most people fail is that they try to fix too much at once - join a gym, get out of debt, floss after meals and have thinner thighs in 30 days.

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

You know, painting has given me a lot of freedom, because for some reason, I've been able to paint things, organize things in a way that I see that don't have any buffers or compromises in them.

An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.

Well, I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment, and I've learned quickly these last few days that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.

You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.

I should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian.

Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.

Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.