What we accept as reality is primarily a construction of our imagination.

My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics.

Man was created to glorify God. Now, that may encompass other things which God has planned for each man, but essentially, man was created to glorify God.

Goodness is sparked by a caution for the sake of what is good, not fear of what is bad.

Sorrow is the violent smashing of reason, in that reason has no power over it.

What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there’s probably some back story or issue or reason for the way that they are. It’s not...

The ultimate story of success: When a nobody, who has never once in his entire life known the feeling of being remembered or respected, suddenly snaps and becomes a world dictator. On one hand it...

Reason is immortal, all else mortal.

The World’s Fair audience tended to think of the machine as unqualifiedly good, strong, stupid and obedient. They thought of it as a giant slave, an untiring steel Negro, controlled by Reason in a world...

You’ll have a few bruises and they’ll remind you of what happened and that’s okay. But after a while, the bruises fade and they fade for a reason. Because now, it’s time to get up...

In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations.

[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn’t think of doctrines as primarily “true” or “false,” but as “academic”...

I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn’t talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men’s stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

We are all human, and our senses are quicker to prompt us than our reason. Every man gives off a scent, and that scent tells you how to act before your head does.

Astronomy is, not without reason, regarded, by mankind, as the sublimest of the natural sciences. Its objects so frequently visible, and therefore familiar, being always remote and inaccessible, do not lose their dignity.

The reason they’ve been in bankruptcy for three years is because they couldn’t get creditors on board, I think they’re going to come out when they say they are this time.

All that alcohol does for them is to liberate the sense of sin, which reason suppresses in saner moments.

The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn’t support yourself as an ‘artist’ – I hate that word. The only way you could...

With Truth, Reason, and Morality off the board, we then capture their last Rook —that prissy little virtue, Temperance— for she depends on those other three for her beauty and was thus left wholly undefended.

For faith, properly understood, does not contradict reason in the least; indeed…it is nothing less than the will to keep one’s mind fixed precisely on what reason has discovered to it.

To be intuitive is to possess a godly characteristic, to be bad at second-guessing the good.

Naturally, I always place my word over anyone else’s simply because I know why I said what I said.

For some reason, … I just got so angry that I had chipped my tooth … and just started hitting him and we didn’t talk for a month after that.

But we have reason to think that the annihilation of work is no less a physical impossibility than its creation, that is, than perpetual motion.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

The idea persists that faith is a remnant of an ancient way of life, a way of knowing that asks for unthinking acceptance of a belief system or adherence to specific dogma. This may be...

I painted my walls yellow, with melted butter, because I recently discovered that I had a popcorn ceiling. It’s this kind of reasoning that leads me to think I might make a great politician. Vote...

But when they’re all in the same area and same position it’s difficult and that’s the reason why we’re looking to do something.

The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.

I feel like it’s always a good sign when you find yourself talking for hours about every topic ever. It’s best when you just find the person interesting for no apparent reason.

Obviously, we were 4-12 for a reason last year. I think Jeff did what he thought needed to be done. A lot of the guys he called out aren’t here anymore.

Atheism is a conclusion reached by the most reasonable methods and one which is not asserted dogmatically but is explained in its every feature by the light of reason. The atheist does not boast of...

For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression.

Don’t keep reaching for the stars because you’ll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason.

It’s not rubbish to say that I was a bit peeved about not getting credit for a couple of songs, but that wasn’t the whole reason. I guess I just felt like I had enough....

The seeking face that will not alter when presented with reason, must delight in its wearer’s prideful ignorance.

If we are defined by reason and morality, then reason and morality must define our choices, even when animals are concerned. When people say, for example, that they like their veal or hot dogs too...

I guess we’re all, or most of us, the wards of that nineteenth-century science which denied existence to anything it could not measure or explain. The things we couldn’t explain went right on but surely...

A purpose derived from a false premise – that a deity has ordained submission to his will – cannot merit respect. The pursuit of Enlightenment-era goals — solving our world’s problems through rational discourse, rather...

One reason I love the Kindle, more so than the iPad, is that on the Kindle you can’t do anything else but read. It’s the best, because it does the least. It doesn’t even show...

The regions of the North Pole situated within the eighty-fourth degree of north latitude have not yet been utilized, for the very good reason that they have not yet been discovered.

The modern believer is not suspicious enough, which is perhaps why, when they try to construct arguments in their defence, the convictions are left doing all the work and reason, debilitated by neglect, weakly fails...

There is no justifiable reason for borders to be closed to U.S. beef,

The past is called the past for a reason. If you are constantly looking behind you, your eyes aren’t on the road ahead. You don’t drive the car that way, so why should you live...

Teens are teens for a reason. It’s because they aren’t yet adults. That’s why we have to keep a close watch over them.

Reason is inherently expansionist. It seeks universal application.

This position and the confiscation of lands have no reason at all. (The wall) doesn’t benefit the security of either Israel or anybody else. Our prayers are for the removal of this physical wall currently...

Reason is an outcome of frailty and resentment. When Will fails to cope with the labour of life, or the life of labour, its fragile remnants are set to construct a slighter world of justifications.

The campaign against terrorism is going to be global and it’s going to be long and there’s reason to expect there will be difficulties along the way.