The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
...the number one reason knitters knit is because they are so smart that they need knitting to make boring things interesting. Knitters are so compellingly clever that they simply can't tolerate boredom. It takes more to engage and entertain this kind of human, and they need an outlet or they get into trouble. "...knitters just can't watch TV without doing something else. Knitters just can't wait in line, knitters just can't sit waiting at the doctor's office. Knitters need knitting to add a layer of interest in other, less constructive ways.
Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Reason is the enemy of faith.
To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the same reason.
Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers.
Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.
When bad things turn good, the reason can usually be found in the human heart—sometimes in the hearts of great masses of people, sometimes in the heart of a solitary soul.
It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
Just watching a girl can give me the best reason to smile. Girls are something very special and you got to treat them that way. That's why I always say don't stare right at a chick. She'll begin to fidget, wondering if her hair's messed up or if her make-up is smeared. It's kind of like going to an art gallery to see beautiful paintings. If you look at a painting just the right way, you get the most out of it!
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
Reason can discover things only near,--sees nothing that's above her.
It isn't Narnia, you know," sobbed Lucy. "It's you. We shan't meet you there. And how can we live, never meeting you?" "But you shall meet me, dear one," said Aslan. "Are -are you there too, Sir?" said Edmund. "I am," said Aslan. "But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.
Victory may now require a level of force deemed objectionable by civilized peoples, meaning that some, for justifiable reasons, may be reluctant to pursue it. But victory has not become an ossified concept altogether.
The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to keep below them. That is why they are able to reign over all the mountain streams.
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