Reason Quotes

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

That's another reason I did Daredevil: I didn't get killed off in it.

What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world.

The reason they call it 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up.

It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Please remember we all come from the same one and we will all return to that one, so there is no reason for fighting.

I realize that things happen for a reason.

To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.

My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.

For some reason, Hollywood seems to have painted me as a gorgeous vixen at times or the sweet girl.

Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it.

And the reason I really appreciated this is because after the picture came out, I was invited by the American Psychiatric Association to give a lecture. I couldn't believe it!

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

Brand-new research suggests that the faster you take weight off, the longer you keep it off. Now that's a reason for dieters everywhere to rejoice.

To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.

The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.

The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car. The only reason I wanted to make money as an actor was because I'm passionate about food!

An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.

If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing.

Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast.

I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold.