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Reason cannot remain a bare intellectual faculty; it must become a faculty of judgment dealing with the question of values.
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
Caleb could be so testy for no known reason. At times, it was like dating a woman with irritable bowel syndrome. Or rabies.
The reason it seems that price is all your customers care about is that you haven't given them anything else to care about.
Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
The early Mussalmans accepted Islam not because they knew it to be revealed but because it appealed to their virgin reason.
I'm not interested in what they have to say. I'm only interested in people that are interested in me for the right reasons.
The reasons there are so many clichés about universes inside of dewdrops is because there are universes inside of dewdrops.
The reason I feel like I act is because you get to live a million different lives in one. I don't have to go about my life.
I don't make music for any other reason than me enjoying music, and I am also glad that I am able to make a living of this.
Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.
I don't want to be someone's reason to hate their life. I want to be someone's reason to seek something more in their life.
You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things -- useful things.
As a psychopathic creature, the corporation can neither recognize nor act upon moral reasons to refrain from harming others.
After all, once you know that part of something exists, it stands to reason that the rest of it is somewhere out there, too.
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.
Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do.
One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.
Production-wise, I've always stuck with Ableton Live and there's really no reason to switch to something else at this point.
They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It's not so good, that way.
If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.'
There is every reason for being cautious about founding new universities till India has digested Her newly acquired freedom.
The main reason I did 'Captain America' was because I wanted to get out of my own head and stop taking my work so seriously.
I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.
Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason; they can only be controlled by taboos with which we tamper at our peril.
When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
I'm not ashamed of anything that I've done because when I did it, I was passionate about it and I was doing it for a reason.
It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage
I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.
No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
You're sort of forced to include this aspect of culture into your life whether it be for social reasons or business purposes.
I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.
You look angry," he said. "You put me on hold." "For a very good reason." "You put me," she said very, very slowly, "on hold.
You reason like the king, who, being sent across the frontier, called out, 'What will become of my poor subjects without me?'
There always should be something hanging unfinished before a scene ends so that there's a reason for going to the next scene.
It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason, as reason is to religion.
For the same reason that the Ancien Regime is thought to have an end but no beginning, the Revolution has a birth but no end.
Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.
If I see an orchid that's fantastically expensive, I'll buy it. It's worth it, for no other reason than it gives me pleasure.
The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.
Well, like I said, there's no reason everyone can't have a piece of the pie, even if there's a gordo there eating most of it.
At the end of the day, I don't know what makes any artist say what he says. Everyone has a reason for whatever it is they do.