The reason it’s hard for me to tweet is I don’t want to pronounce anything, and Twitter is for pronouncing.

Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse.

Where did I get it from? Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbour and not throttle him? They told me so when I was a child,...

Why do people kill themselves?I think they do it when they can no longer find a reason to keep going. When nothing in heir lives is good enough to balance out the bad. And they...

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to posses a guiding principle

The reason we don’t use him is because we’re not going to just throw him out there. This is exactly the reason he is here. We’re saving him for situations like that.

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.

Faith is reason grown courageous.

It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your...

For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love.

The agnostic does not simply say, “l do not know.” He goes another step, and he says, with great emphasis, that you do not know. He insists that you are trading on the ignorance of...

… and yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days…

I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don’t realize this until you’re getting sober but the reason why you’re depressed all the time is it’s the drugs that...

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.