A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason has deserted him.

The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness.

If man was a logical creature: his last suspect—namely, his mouth—was going to be the first; whenever he thinks that someone, or, something is smelly.

Writing a book about yourself is like therapy, and you go ‘Oh My God, that’s the reason that happened.’ Writing about it, you’re forced to really examine things.

I think can sit here for hours,Arguing with the world as to why I can’t give up,Tell everyone around me what a blessing you are,Laugh at all the times that you’ve brought sun into my...

Motivation is desire or inspiration. A motive is a reason. What’s your reason?

One of Beckham’s sons is in hospital and that was the reason he stayed in Madrid, … He will come here tomorrow afternoon.

I raised my forecast to at least 10,000. And the reason is — the market is so powerful internally It’s very impressive. My advice is — get in!.

Reason shows us there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

I think it’s the yawn of the century so far. My theory is one of the reason they’re doing it is to try to win back business travelers they lost during the (1998) strike.

I guess I should say a little bit about my method – I really am a fence sitter. I *loathe* Science and am always keen to attack it in most situations, though not here, because...

Everyone is alone. Everyone is empty. People no longer have need of others. You can always find a spare for any talent. Any relationship can be replaced. I had gotten bored of a world like...

I am an advocate of freedom for women. Options and the power to choose among them are crucial to our human dignity. And I am wholeheartedly an advocate of women’s human dignity. But we must...

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart —...

The reason we shot it was that the script was geared to Las Vegas and it was something commercial that we wanted to have in the can in case Butterfly was a success and we...

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

In the presence of death reason and philosophy are silent

Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.

It’s been said before: ‘The sleep of reason produces monsters.

I suspect the main reason is that the players are fundamentally well behaved on-field. They have become more and more disciplined.

I’ll write while I’m breathing.

The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.

I think we all want to prove something. We came here for one reason in training camp and the guys who have been here for a while and have not done what they wanted to...

… it would be better for our country and the world in general, if at least the few people who were capable of thought stood for reason and the love of peace instead of heading...

Negative Capacity, that is when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason.

The reason my kids come to the set is so I can actually see them.

Apparently rational justifications will never explain all sorts of the different feelings and raw emotions art invoke in people.

We cannot deal with people like human beings, we cannot deal with them on the high level of true humanity, unless we really know their origin-who they are. God tells man who he is. God...

Getting to the top should be a priority, but being aware of the reason for getting there should be the focus!

…[P]hilosophical theories are structured by conceptual metaphors that constrain which inferences can be drawn within that philosophical theory. The (typically unconscious) conceptual metaphors that are constitutive of a philosophical theory have the causal effect of...

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

Ours was the age of enlightenment, he said, when the battle cry was, “We must know, we shall know!”, and reason would depose superstition and we be liberated by it.

Skepticism is thus a resting-place for human reason, where it can reflect upon its dogmatic wanderings and make survey of the region in which it finds itself, so that for the future it may be...

The faculty to think objectively is reason; the emotional attitude behind reason is that of humility. To be objective, to use one’s reason, is possible only if one has achieved an attitude of humility, if...

We have more than enough reason to believe [Jackson] is on the precipice of bankruptcy.

The reason 2008 and 2013 worked is because those are 14-week seasons. Trying to put Miami in a 13-week season, our schedule is tough enough as it is. With 14 weeks, it does give you...

Our Christian faith – and correlatively, our account of apologetics – is tainted by modernism when we fail to appreciate the effects of sin on reason. When this is ignored, we adopt an Enlightenment optimism...

There are times over different projects when I’ve asked the writers why people are swearing for no good reason. I tell them that it would be funnier if there weren’t these swear words.

Reason is the hero who breaks the chains of our prejudice, saving us from the prison of our comfortable acquiescence in the way of the world.

My early research – I’m a social psychologist, and my early research was on how people make moral judgments. When I entered the field in 1987, everybody was looking at moral reasoning – how do...

One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman,...

There had to be a reason why they were not going to marry. They had both been so adamant about it.What the devil was the reason?

We know who got on the plane at Grass Valley and believe they are the same occupants. There’s no reason to believe the plane landed anywhere else and took on different people,

I loved my father, but I was not like him. I never needed to believe the best of people. I took them as they were: two-faced, desperate, kind – perhaps all at once. But to...

When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately,...

Allow intelligent design into science textbooks, lecture halls, and laboratories, and the cost to the frontier of scientific discovery—the frontier that drives the economies of the future—would be incalculable. I don’t want students who could...

With Nellie, we tried it the other way. Nellie was brilliant for what he did, but for whatever reason, it didn’t work. All of our guys want to win a championship, and this is a...