We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
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.
We have built a thousand temples to Fortune and not one to Reason
If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.
I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
Probably the most important reason we are seeing more cancers than before is because the population is ageing overall. And cancer is an age-related disease.
He had never liked October. Ever since he had first lay in the autumn leaves before his grandmother's house many years ago and heard the wind and saw the empty trees. It had made him cry, without a reason. And a little of that sadness returned each year to him. It always went away with spring. But, it was a little different tonight. There was a feeling of autumn coming to last a million years. There would be no spring. ("The October Game")
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
Our capacity for fulfillment can come only through faith and feelings. But our capacity for survival must come from reason and knowledge.
The only reason I can hold up my head is because when He set me free He gave me my dignity back.
Gandhi was important for another reason as well: his country was suffering under the British Empire, and yet he was leading a very singular kind of resistance to it. At the time he was speaking about the violence in Europe, his followers were in jail as prisoners of the British government.
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.
And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be living in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of them merely got you invited to the very best social occasions.
I think that the reason for my success is that I am really not aspirational. I am inspirational in that the people at home feel like they can really relate to me.
The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.
Very few people are capable of sustained effort, and that's the reason why we have comparatively few outstanding successes.
The voice of reason is inaudible to irrational people.
Nature's tears are reason's merriment.
In the stock market. . . You can be right for the wrong reasons or wrong for the right reasons.
