There were no scruples, no feelings of respect or loyal affection that would stop us from making up our minds by the pure light of reason – and of our own desires.

The main reason I write the daily observations is because I want to know where I’m wrong. So lots of times if somebody points something out it helps me, and I want to have a...

The reason I love Luis Palau is because this is a guy who is completely all about evangelism and reaching people and the lost with the gospel.

My coach is leaving and that wasn’t the only reason, but that was a very big reason why I came here. I don’t think it would be best for me to stay here. I think...

The conscience is a right mix of instinct, reason and culture. The conscience itself is not a truth but it has an ability to access the truth. But the very conscience is assembled only by...

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.

Compared with other recent presidents whose stumbles and failures have assaulted the national self-esteem, memories of Kennedy continue to give the country faith that its better days are ahead. That’s been reason enough to discount...

But maybe that isn’t possible. Maybe the mind of the majority is always the healthy mind, simply by virtue of its numbers. Maybe it’s the definition of madness to believe I’m right and everyone else...

The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

From a strategic point of view it’s a good deal. The reason I don’t say a very good deal is because 26.50 is a full price.

For a God that created everything, it is mystifying why he created so much competition.

We either base our ‘confidence’ on reason (evident probabilities, past experience, competence, etc) or we base our beliefs on faith, which is blind by definition. Faith is the most dishonest position it is possible to...

I assure you, my good Lestrade, that I have an excellent reason for everything that I do.

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

The big reason why we don’t have space colonies and regular trips to the moon is that flying into outer space is just plain ‘hard.’ The business of safely transporting people off the Earth is...

I studied mathematics which is the madness of reason.

Rail longer than train cars ; and the hope than our reasons. (Rail plus long que les wagons ; – Et l’espoir que nos raisons.)

For my part, I prefer the ontological argument, the cosmological argument and the rest of the old stock-in-trade, to the sentimental illogicality that has sprung from Rousseau.

Surviving is one thing,” he said quietly, his voice suddenly calmer, “but you’ve got to have a reason to do it. There’s no point in living if you don’t have anything worth living for.

The reason why I started the clothing line Licious is because I had trouble finding clothes for my body type. I figured if I’m having trouble finding clothes for me, being curvy, I know girls...

It’s against reason,” said Filby.”What reason?” said the Time Traveller.

For some reason, with Albert coming up to the plate, you just felt good about the situation, … You can sit there and end your season on saying, ‘Hey, he got him out’ or ‘Albert...

If one should criticize one should always have a meaningful explanation to accompany.

I figured there was no reason to lie. I told them I just escaped.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

In my eyes, I think it’s important that if you’re doing something you’re proud of and that is genuine and authentic, you have a responsibility to bring that to as many people as possible, just...

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

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

If Nord Stream was built in Europe, I see no reason why South Stream cannot be built as well.

It doesn’t matter why I want to leave. You’re the reason I want to stay.

For whatever reason, we wouldn’t pull the trigger. We weren’t being aggressive.

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.

Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates...

Humans always love and hate each other for a reason; beauty or talent, hard working or wealth. If you want to be loved give them a reason.

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

Mel exhaled. “Why are you forcing me into the voice-of-reason role? You know that never works out for us.

Emotion lay at the very heart of the process of perception, intertwined with intellectual functions, yet adding to perception a quality that reason lacked.

I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.

Assuming markets behave reasonably well in 2006, I would expect there is no reason we couldn’t grow operating earnings in double digits.

The traditional arguments for the existence of God have been fairly thoroughly criticised by philosophers. But the theologian can, if he wishes, accept this criticism. He can admit that no rational proof of God’s existence...

The reason I first wanted to start him was I remembered the times we would face him in Atlanta and just think you were going to kill him. And he always stuck it [to us].

Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert.

He told me the reason he put Tyson on his mask is because he was an idol of his, as a boxer. He knows now that [Tyson] he’s lost that right because of his conviction...

Exposition is a mode of thought, a method of learning, and a means of expression. Almost all of the characteristics we associate with mature discourse were amplified by typography, which has the strongest possible bias...

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.

If I have a reason to do something, and I have enough passion, I generally succeed.

I agree with Pierre Bayle and with Unamuno that when cold reason contemplates the world it finds not only an absence of God, but good reasons for supposing that there is no God at all....

As many critics of religion have pointed out, the notion of a creator poses an immediate problem of an infinite regress. If God created the universe, what created God? To say that God, by definition,...