The only difference between me and most people is that I’m perfectly aware that all my important decisions are made for me by my subconscious. My frontal lobes are just kidding themselves that they decide...

I understand there are doubts. I’m going to do everything I can within reason to clear my name.

We’re obliged to acknowledge the limits of reason; and to acknowledge the necessary reality of the realms to which reason has no access.

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.

I experienced firsthand what it means to be poor, what it means to go hungry, and that, I think, may be the reason, the root cause of why I’m able to work so hard, even...

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

I may not believe that ‘all things happen for a reason.’ But I do believe that reason may come from all things that happen.

Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.

(The officiating) isn’t the reason we lost. We had a very difficult time with their pressure. . . . They just took it to us.

This is not an issue that is breaking along partisan lines. That’s one reason I think you didn’t see them there, because the battle lines are just not the way you’d expect.

Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it.

That is the trouble…You are a crowd of bits of boys all in the thing for what you will get. Demands, you call them. Well, I am against demands of any kind. You cannot reason...

If we could believe that he [Jesus] really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanism which his biographers [Gospels] father on him, and admit the misconstructions, interpolations, and theorizations of the fathers of the...

We really love all sports, but we don’t think in the long term. The reason we did Kingpin was because there was a script we really liked and we saw the possibilities.

Old age doth in sharp pains abound;We are belabored by the gout,Our blindness is a dark profound,Our deafness each one laughs about.Then reason’s light with falling rayDoth but a trembling flicker cast.Honor to age, ye...

If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are...

Lyrics are important, but it’s hard, because English isn’t my first language – although it feels like it is these days! I grew up with amazing melodies, so getting that right on a song has...

There is no season and no reason for love. Love is not seasonal its perennial.

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

Imitate Jesus and Socrates

The most common reason new mothers return to work sooner than they’d like to is because they can’t afford to go without their salaries any longer.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Is it not lack of faith that leads men to fear the scrutiny of reason? If the destination is doubtful, than the path must be fraught with fear. A robust faith need not fear, for...

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority...

England has her Stratford, Scotland has her Alloway, and America, too, has her Dresden. For there, on August 11, 1833, was born the greatest and noblest of the Western World; an immense personality, — unique,...

When making a point, there are 2 types of people who may disagree with you: those who can support their reasons, and the childish ones who are too worried about being told what to do.

I have every reason to believe that the British are right about this. I trust the British on this issue. The British are operating in the south, they know the situation there.

Experience teaches effectually, but brutally. It makes us acquainted with all the effects of an action, by causing us to feel them; and we cannot fail to finish by knowing that fire burns, if we...

The reason there are tens of thousands of lobbyists is because the ever-expanding federal government creates ever-increasing opportunities for abuse. The more the federal government does, the more lobbyists there will be to protect special...

With reason did the Athenians adjudge Diagoras guilty of atheism, in that he not only divulged the Orphic doctrine, and published the mysteries of Eleusis and of the Cabiri, and chopped up the wooden statue...

In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning…

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to...

If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?

The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons.

God gave us intestines for a reason. I’m not keen on surgery. It’s too extreme. All it took was one of those plastic surgery shows to see how violent it is.

In the preamble to my question, I summarized the local bridge situation. I specifically asked if there was any reason why a private bridge can’t be built here. He absolutely knew which bridge we were...

I don’t see a reason for doing it. If it doesn’t add something to the game, why do it?

Truth is, something exists, and everything exists for a reason. Regardless if the reason is known or unknown, knowable or unknowable, reason exists and can be named.

All of my books, which are supposedly, I mean they’re called YA novels, my hope is that adults would find no reason not to read them if they read them.

humbling. Our game is to stop the run and for whatever reason, we didn’t do that. We’ll look at films, see what we did wrong and learn from it.

You can get stuck in the trap of reading your YouTube comments all the time. Sometimes I regret it. Not everyone is going to love you. And for some reason, stand-up has this thing where...

Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.

Socrates gave as his reason for declining an invitation to the court of Perdiccas, “I have no wish to go down to my grave with ignominy;” implying that he would accept no favor which he...

These guys just broke the bank. There’s a reason they got $11 million and $9 million just to sign on the dotted line. Because they’re that good.

Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument.

All order, I’ve come to understand, is theoretical, unreal — a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities, the self and the world — two snake pits.

Jessie decided not to go down for some reason. If he would have gone, he’d be dead, too.