Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

Le cœur a ses raisons, que la raison ne connaît point. [The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing.]— Blaise Pascal, Pensées (1669)

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.

There is continued takeover speculation surrounding the entire group. I suspect that is the primary reason moving the stock.

This economy is not getting better and the president’s policies are the reason.

The bands that have been the most important to me, and the records that have been the most important to me as a fan, have been records that surprised me for one reason or another.

Every major power always seeks to justify its action on moral grounds. Such behaviour is almost as old as the hills. The west has been a particularly vigorous exponent of this credo; and there is...

Destination is, ideally, where one should stop; and ideally, one should not stop. Practically, destination of a great man is where he wants to stop; of a common man, where he has to. The one...

Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he...

Do not believe a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are...

The U.S. trade deficit will likely remain at high levels in coming months. The major reason is that the American economy should continue to grow at a solid pace, supporting continued growth in imports.

There’s no smoking gun and there’s no reason for them to go changing rate policy right now.

People get so attached to a position which they identify themselves with that they just spurt it out, but they can’t really give you a viable reason why they feel that way.

I think the reason for my fascination with craft is what it represents, what it means in our culture, what it means in our history and in humanity. It was the idea that you could...

We went back into the Mens Apartments where there were others raving of Ships that may fly and silvered Creatures upon the Moon: Their Stories seem to have neither Head nor Tayl to them, Sir...

The Light of humane minds is Perspicuous Words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity; Reason is the pace; Encrease of Science, the way; and the Benefit of man-kind, the end. And...

In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.

Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey.

I do not judge the individual based on their belief. If I were to, then I would, undoubtedly, be no better than the (religious) system that I frown upon.

In my experience, the biggest reason people struggle to get where they want to be is guilt. Guilt that they have let someone down, and also guilt that they are about to leave someone they...

My dear cousin means the world to me. He is my only ally and I lost him. Deep in my heart I know he didn’t want to blame me but his heart is set on...

Because I’ve been allowed to stay long enough, I think that’s part of the reason that this has occurred, along with, obviously, having some very fine players who’ve worked their tails off to build this...

The reason we were able to win is that we did defend very well. It was one of our best defensive games of the year.

Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason – because some people like them. It’s the same with baseball statistics.

The sensible man,’ Crow had said (to Sherlock Holmes), ‘don’t look to confirm what he already knows — he looks to deny it. Finding evidence that backs up your theories ain’t useful, but finding evidence...

To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion. Geometry at the service of man! Give me two spheres and...

I writeNotFor the sake of gloryNot For the sake of fameNotFor the sake of successBut for the sake of my soul

Does religious conviction provide a powerful reason for killing? Undeniably it often does. It also often provides the sole compelling reason for refusing to kill, or for being merciful, or for seeking peace; only the...

And I figured out that the reason I couldn’t get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for...

This generation of filmmakers is very good. They’re seasoned, for some reason.

In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects passion and first impressions act a little, but very little, before...

The reason why I like theater is because it’s a long journey, and no matter what role you play, we are all in it together.

Intuition is reason in a hurry.

There’s no reason to not be humble, because as great as you may be, you can always be greater.

I always have my reasons, even when I don’t know what they are.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

This world, for aught he knows, is very faulty and imperfect, compared to a superior standard; and was only the first rude essay of some infant deity, who afterwards abandoned it, ashamed of his lame...

The deliberate habituation of patriotism has a bearing upon the problem of peace. Knowledge of other peoples will not bring harmony and mutual goodwill unless it is sympathetic knowledge, and, if it is to be...

Within Hobbes’ depiction of the motives for conflict. . . there is a problematic in which the grave threat that human beings pose to other human beings is not constituted simply by the structures of...

Two wrongs’ create an additional problem.’A wrong’ plus ‘A right’ creates a remorse.’Two rights’ create a solution.

You know, Junpei, everything in the world has its reasons for doing what it does.

GE delivered in the first quarter for the same reason we have delivered throughout the economic downturn — the strength of our business model, … [Our] mix of businesses and execution of our [productivity and...

The reason traders are jumping all over this is because Pershing Square Capital purchased almost 10 percent of Wendy’s International shares to try to force it to sell off their Tim Hortons chain. The company...

Such is the strange situation in which modern philosophy finds itself. No former age was ever in such a favourable position with regard to the sources of our knowledge of human nature. Psychology, ethnology, anthropology,...

You know, I’m not saying, ‘Oh, because I play a good guy on TV, I need to suddenly be villainous in a movie.’ I look at it more like: does this role has a kind...

Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?

The reason I am so negative about the Federal Reserve’s policies is that they only target core inflation and argue that they can’t identify bubbles, but when each bubble bursts, they flood the system with...

One of the first unanswerable questions I asked was when I was eight years old. Some cousins of mine always said a prayer before eating: God is kind, God is good, And we thank him...

The reason it’s important is that that’s the key to unwinding some of their cable assets, that is, to sell to U S West New Media some of their cable properties in exchange for more...

A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is beautiful for that reason alone. I don’t think this can be true for photography. Unless there is something a little incomplete and a little strange,...