Quotes on Reason

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

Strong reasons make strong actions let us go If you say ay, the king will not say no.

So, basically, my view is I don't want to support the exploitation of animals, and within reason, I will do what I can to avoid it, but it's not like it's a religion for me. It's not like I consider I'm polluted if somehow some bit of milk or cheese or something passes my lips.

The only time I waste is time I spend doing something that, in my gut, I know I shouldn't. If I choose to spend time playing video games or sleeping in, then it's time well spent, because I chose to do it. I did it for a reason - to relax, to decompress or to feel good, and that was what I wanted to do.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

There can't be a practical reason for believing something that is not true.

The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.

There is no reason to believe that the people who staff the managerial and professional positions in our service institutions are any less qualified, any less competent or honest, or any less hard-working than the men who manage businesses. Conversely, there is no reason to believe that business managers, put in control of service institutions, would do better than the 'bureaucrats'. Indeed, we know that they immediately become bureaucrats themselves.

Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.

Demetrius was wont to say that there was no difference between the words and speech of the unskilled and ignorant and the sounds and rumblings caused by the stomach being full of superfluous wind. This he said, not without reason, for, as he held, it did not in the least matter from what part of them the voice emanated, whether from the lower parts or the mouth, since the one and the other were of equal worth and importance.

I think there is a good reason why the propaganda system works that way. It recognizes that the public will not support the actual policies. Therefore it is important to prevent any knowledge or understanding of them.

The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while suffering.

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

If you try to delight the undelightable, you've made yourself miserable for no reason.

The reason why congregations have been so dead is, because they had dead men preaching to them. O that the Lord may quicken and revive them! How can dead men beget living children?

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

Don't tell me what was said about me. Tell me why they were so comfortable to say it to you.

In Deism our reason and our belief are happily united.