The widest cause of secularization may be the steady change of thinking so that there is the expectation that reason and a consideration of cause and effect will help with explanations. Supernatural power began to...

I think we all were (impressed). There’s some reason why he has jumped three levels in a year and a half. You could see why today.

I’m so fascinated by the concept of teen pregnancy for some reason. Not that I condone it or promote it, but it’s just a very real thing in our country and culture.

It may be taken for granted that, rash as Americans usually are, when they are prudent, there is good reason for it.

I try to stay away from stuff that’s just action, action, action, action, action, and you kind of fast-forward through the dialogue scenes. I’m not interested in doing that. Give me a reason to fight,...

We’ve had a couple situations in a game where we wanted to get him the ball, … But, for whatever reason, the coverage hasn’t worked out right and we’ve had to throw the check-down or...

He didn’t give me a reason.

My reason and inspiration to lose weight and stay fit is my youngest son, Anant, who is fighting obesity. I would like to be an example for him.

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.

There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.

Time makes more converts than reason.

There’s no reason why you can’t deliver a grammar-school curriculum to an all-ability intake.

I am going to be contradictory to myself many times for the simple reason that I am trying to bring all the religions to a higher synthesis. Different approaches have to be joined together. I...

They don’t make them like that anymore. The standard size was 30 feet, but for some reason they built it 10 meters, or 33 feet.

God is The Reasonable One, therefore reason & faith are not antithetical” ~R. Alan Woods [2007]

Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.

Johnny said that recording was his main reason for being alive. And I think it was the only thing that kept him going, the only thing he had to look forward to.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan.

There’s no reason why he can’t put up big numbers,

The theologians dead, knew no more than the theologians now living. More than this cannot be said. About this world little is known,—about another world, nothing.Our fathers were intellectual serfs, and their fathers were slaves....

… reason andlove keep little company together now-a-days…

…her very kindness was cruel because it was founded not on love but on reason…

In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to...

I felt for him. He has no reason to cry. He’s a great player who played a great game.

The reason you are seeing banks refocus back on distribution is because that is the only competitive advantage they have over new players.

To irrational principles, one cannot be loyal. Ideas that are not derived from reality cannot be consistently practiced in reality.–as quoted by Leonard Peikoff in “Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand

Worship us or we perish.” A dethroned monarch may retain some of his human dignity while driving a taxi for a living. But a god without his thunderbolt is a poor object.

We have no reason to believe it won’t be this year. It would take no time to do. We’ve had plenty of debate on this. We’ve had hearing after hearing.

And yet surely to alchemy this right is due, that it may be compared to the husbandman whereof Aesop makes the fable, that when he died he told his sons that he had left unto...

The methods of increasing the degree of truth in our beliefs are well known; they consist in hearing all sides, trying to ascertain all the relevant facts, controlling our own bias by discussion with people...

And here is the point, about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary...

So there are countless reasons to remain on this Godforsaken planet that was long considered the only world, if for no other reason than to learn the end of our story: what the author of...

One of the recent arguments from design, that based on the so-called fine-tuning life of some fundamental physical constants, founders on the following objections: an extremely small prior probability merited by the God of theism...

Reason begets honesty, and honesty, if given its head, begets confidence; so consequently, there is a sort of grand authority in the stances of those who know why they are standing.

Positive thinking relates to an art of reasoning with the quality of hope for a better future either in the face of difficulties or in the presence of abundance of opportunities.

I think everything happens for a reason and all the things that happened to me – good, bad – I’m glad they did. It’s made me ready for life, for adulthood.

Live for a reasonLive with passion.

A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.

Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness.

Logic in all its infinite potential, is the most dangerous of vices. For one can always find some form of logic to justify his action, and rest comfortably in the assurance, that what he did...

I’m holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something – that may not be very clear to me right now – but that I will do.

I hope I presented what I felt the woman seemed to be about, but I couldn’t give any reason as to why she remained in the relationship other than that their relationship was very special.

This life is for us to discover the divine within. And that’s really the key to life in many ways for me. And the thing is, it’s not for us to reason why everything is...

Absent a legend, they have very big shoes to fill. Ted was the differentiator. He was the reason to watch, and the fine line they need to walk is to make a program that stands...

I don’t discuss any of that. I never have, so why would I now? You can reason anything you want.

Reason excludes faith,” Alessandro responded, watching the blood-red mite as it made a dash for the rim. “It’s deliberately limited. It won’t function with the materials of religion. You can come close to proving the...

You would think the overall market should be stronger, but the reason it isn’t is because the heavier weight groups (financial services) are weighing down the market.

The fantastic in literature doesn’t exist as a challenge to what is probable, but only there where it can be increased to a challenge of reason itself: the fantastic in literature consists, when all has...

When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of inner conflict, of unsettled hearts, a sign that something has gone wrong in our moral...