When I say ‘I will be true to you’ I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. No-one can legislate love; it cannot be given orders or cajoled into service. Love...

We’ve already anticipated the increase in consumer prices. It is not a reason to sell bonds any more.

But dogmatism—or the inclination “to identify the goal of our thinking with the point at which we have become tired of thinking”—is so natural to man that it is not likely to be a preserve...

Back therefore we find ourselves returning. Back to the wisdom of the plough; back to the wisdom of those who follow the sea. It is all a matter of the wheel coming full-circle. For the...

You’re doing it again. Using reason to argue faith. Can’t be done. Like playing croquet with a crochet hook. Sounds something like the right tool for the job, but isn’t.

Jens now has no reason anymore to be making any kind of comments,

Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.

We only get together when there’s a good reason. Like, last summer, we didn’t really intend to go out, but we thought the B-52’s tour was a good opportunity.

The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.

The reason gold-diggers trivializerelationships is because they do not know love,they only know money.

We want to see it cleaned up. There?s no reason to have lead on the ground.

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

The unemployment rate has effectively not gone down from where it was at the peak of the recession. The only reason it’s gone technically from 10 percent to 8 percent is so many people are...

Were we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own – then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emotion without reason is...

The more expensive and/or exclusive a sport, the whiter it tends to be: the fact almost has the force of a law. That is the main reason why the Rugby World Cup, the Pacific islands...

The reason we don’t have 1,000 or 2,000 (workers) out there is because we don’t have any way to get them out there and keep them out there safely.

Here is one optimist’s reason for believing unity will prevail … within the next hundred years … nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority.A phrase briefly...

For whatever reason everybody wasn’t playing and doing the things we were supposed to do. We got it straightened out and started playing.

The great trouble with religion – any religion – is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions by evidence. One may bask at the warm fire of faith...

The evolution of life, and the evolutionary origin of mankind, are scientifically established as firmly and completely as any historical event not witnessed by human observers. Any concession to anti-evolutionists, suggesting that there are scientific...

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.

The phenomena of nature, especially those that fall under the inspection of the astronomer, are to be viewed, not only with the usual attention to facts as they occur, but with the eye of reason...

You say that it is time to shake off the Mist, but Mankind walks in a Mist; that Reason which you cry up as the Glory of this Age is a Proteus and Cameleon that...

A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.

The mechanic, when a wheel refuses to turn, never thinks of dropping on his knees and asking the assistance of some divine power. He knows there is a reason. He knows that something is too...

The vainglory of wishing to understand is dangerous, immoral and, above all, old-fashioned. The modern way – perhaps the final way – is to say: Go forward, without knowing why, as quickly as possible, towards...

To act morally is not to act out of fear of punishment; it is not to act as one is commanded to act. Rather, it is to act as one ought to act. And how...

The Use of the Understanding, in endeavouring to find out the Meaning of any Proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature and Evidence for or against it, and in judging of it according to the seeming...

Some people are severely lonely, all they can do is accept the single life as an example of being free and happy.

From the beginning, we promised folks that they’ll see whatever event we cover in its entirety, from gavel to gavel – whether it’s the House of Representatives or the Senate. That’s the whole reason for...

We continue to need exhortations to be sympathetic and just, even if we do not believe that there is a God who has a hand in wishing to make us so. We no longer have...

The only reason these sorts of stories get the amount of coverage that they do in the first place is that everyone is rooting for a happy ending. People let their optimism for a good...

When we talk today about receptiveness to stories, we tend to contrast that attitude to one governed by reason – we talk about freeing ourselves from the shackles of the rational mind and that sort...

The accident took place over international airspace, over international waters, and we do not understand any reason to apologize, … The United States did not do anything wrong.

If you can’t win by reason, go for volume.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

Reason is not some external power which dictates how we should behave, but an internal power, integral to who we are … Reason does not command that we love anyone. Nonetheless, reason is vital in...

Those who invalidate reason, ought seriously to consider, ‘whether they argue against reason, with or without reason; if with reason, then they establish the principle, that they are laboring to dethrone;’ but if they argue...

If logic and reason, the hard, cold products of the mind, can be relied upon to deliver justice or produce the truth, how is it that these brain-heavy judges rarely agree? Five-to-four decisions are the...

There is no position outside of reason where you can stand and lecture about reason and pass judgment on reason.

Nature seems to take advantage of the simple mathematical representations of the symmetry laws. When one pauses to consider the elegance and the beautiful perfection of the mathematical reasoning involved and contrast it with the...

I believe people are in our lives for a reason. We’re here to learn from each other.

I’ve been a little more fortunate, perhaps, than a lot of people have, for the simple reason that I’ve constantly been moving: so nobody can hit me – you know what I mean? Protesting is...

Never climb the tree with the reason of plucking a fruit; only to get there and pick a leaf. Let everything you get there to do be done and let it be done well!

So that, upon the whole, we may conclude, that the Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere...

Here I, for instance, quite naturally want to live, in order to satisfy all my capacities for life, and not simply my capacity for reasoning, that is, not simply one twentieth of my capacity for...

Like life, revenge can be a messy business… And both would be much simpler if only our heads could figure out which way our hearts will go. But the heart has its reasons, of which...

Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

We’re a second-half team, definitely. For some reason in the first half we just can’t get it done, but we get angry at halftime and then come out and do it in the second half.

God is a philosophical black hole – the point where reason breaks down.