Man is a fantastic animal; he was born of fantasy, he is the son of “the mad woman of the house.” And universal history is the gigantic and thousand-year effort to go on putting order...

And it’s his illusions about whatconstitutes the real world which are inhibiting him…His reality, his reason, his society … These are what must be destroyed

Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.

[On Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]The answer is unknowable, but it may not be unreasonable to see him, at least in theological terms, as essentially a deist. He is a determinist: there are no miracles (the events...

There was no reason at all to toss me,

I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary’s force of reason, than I am pleased with...

Faith is the mortar that fills the cracks in the evidence and the gaps in the logic, and thus it is faith that keeps the whole terrible edifice of religious certainty still looming dangerously over...

What a deep [trust] in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world there must have been in...

My life’s ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I’m just waiting for the call. For some reason, though, the phone hasn’t rung.

Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy.

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

Coach Davis is my coach; he’s the only reason I’m here. Hopefully, I can be with him wherever he goes.

Reasoning with a drunkard is likeGoing under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.

Without a specific reason for the consumer to behave, without a reward or benefit, the overwhelmed consumer will refuse,

When I had the dividing reason, I shrank from many things; after I had lost it in sight, I hunted through the world for the ugly and the repellant, but I could no longer find...

Faith and reason are indeed complementary faculties that we use to think about the truth. When any winged creature (or mechanism) tries to fly on just one wing, it falls to the ground. In a...

Training is a good dog, a constant companion and an utterly loyal and devoted friend, and everyone should have one. Education is a nagging counselor. And, I am convinced, everyone does have one. It happens,...

I very rarely wear suits, and only make one or two per season, so it’s about wanting exceptional clothes that don’t feel stiff. Fabric and garment washing are a big part of my design process...

There’s a reason why they’re conference champs. They played like it.

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...