Reason Quotes - Page 19

• Calculating people are contemptable. The reason for this is that calculation deals with loss and gain, and the loss and gain mind never stops. Death is considered loss and life is considered gain. Thus, death is something that such a person does not care for, and he is contemptable. Furthermore, scholars and their like are men who with wit and speech hide their own true cowardice and greed. People often misjudge this.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Truth, Loss, Men

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2012). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.31, Shambhala Publications

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• Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another.

  Wanda Jackson

  Girl, Inspiration, People

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• It is on this beautiful day that we celebrate the Fuhrers birthday and thank him for he is the only reason why Germany is still alive today

  Joseph Goebbels

  Beautiful, War, Live For Today

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• You feel like telling him you're not single in the way that he thinks you're single. After all, you have yourself. I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.

  Sloane Crosley

  Thinking, Smell, Effort

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• Eyesight should learn from reason.

  Johannes Kepler

  Science, Mystery, Should

  Johannes Kepler (1995). “Epitome of Copernican Astronomy: & Harmonies of the World”, Prometheus Books

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• Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Science, Age, Lasts

  John Maynard Keynes (2015). “The Essential Keynes”, p.516, Penguin UK

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• Neoconservatives and the Pentagon have good reason to fear the return of the Vietnam Syndrome. The label intentionally suggests a disease, a weakening of the martial will, but the syndrome was actually a healthy American reaction to false White House promises of victory, the propping up of corrupt regimes, crony contracting and cover-ups of civilian casualties during the Vietnam War that are echoed today in the news from Baghdad.

  Tom Hayden

  War, White, House

  Tom Hayden (2008). “Writings For A Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader”, City Lights Publishers

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• Many people have the impression that there is significant scientific disagreement about global climate change. It's time to lay that misapprehension to rest. There is a scientific consensus on the fact that Earth's climate is heating up and human activities are part of the reason. We need to stop repeating nonsense about the uncertainty of global warming and start talking seriously about the right approach to address it.

  Naomi Oreskes

  Talking, People, Environmental

  "Undeniable Global Warming". www.washingtonpost.com. December 26, 2004.

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• Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the powerTo reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.

  Sophocles

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• Most people have a time-bound awareness. And the reason is they have sacrificed their self for their self-image.

  Deepak Chopra

  Self, People, Awareness

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• Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Patience, Space, Challenges

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• It is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has been held in vassalage by kings, priests, and nobles; and it is honorable for us to have produced the first legislature who had the courage to declare that the reason of man may be trusted with the formation of his own opinions.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Kings, Men, Independence

  Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.88, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• What we take ourselves to be doing when we think about what is the case or how we should act is something that cannot be reconciled with a reductive naturalism, for reasons distinct from those that entail the irreducibility of consciousness. It is not merely the subjectivity of thought but its capacity to transcend subjectivity and to discover what is objectively the case that presents a problem....Thought and reasoning are correct or incorrect in virtue of something independent of the thinker's beliefs, and even independent of the community of thinkers to which he belongs. (p. 71)

  Thomas Nagel

  Independent, Thinking, Community

  Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False”, p.72, Oxford University Press

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• We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.

  Charles Kettering

  Enemy, Machines, Daily Life

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• To drown a river beneath its own impounded water, by damming, is to kill what it was and to settle for something else. When the damming happens without good reason . . . then it's a tragedy of diminishment for the whole planet, a loss of one more wild thing, leaving Earth just a little flatter and tamer and simpler and uglier than before.

  David Quammen

  Loss, Rivers, Water

  David Quammen (2012). “Wild Thoughts from Wild Places”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

  William Godwin

  Passion, Revolution, Quiet

  William Godwin (1798). “Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness”, p.244

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• Here again we witness the single outcome of a worldwide process, with East and West yielding the same results, and once again for the same reason: Men have forgotten God.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Men, Evil, East

  "Have We Forgotten God?" by John W. Whitehead, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to the truth, to the real, and to sane Justice.

  Albert Claude

  Real, Heart, Eight

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• God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason.

  Immanuel Kant

  Freedom, Light, Immortality

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• One reason why men and women lose their heads so often is that they use them so little! It is the same with everything. If we have anything that is valuable, it must be put to some sort of use. If a man's muscles are neglected, he soon has none, or rather none worth mentioning. The more the mind is used the more flexible it becomes, and the more it takes upon itself new interests.

  George Matthew Adams

  Men, Often Is, Mind

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• I don't think there is a good reason for an abortion, but Dr. Jasper made me really realize it was just a racket. He was just doing it for the money. He didn't care about the women.

  Norma McCorvey

  Thinking, Abortion, Drs

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• Patients would come in and say, Well, my baby is going to have a cleft palate. I'm going like, that's not a reason. And the doctor would do the abortion.

  Norma McCorvey

  Baby, Doctors, Abortion

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• Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

  William Allen White

  Men, World, Wrecks

  William Allen White (1937). “Forty Years on Main Street”

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• Being a mom's so empowering and incredible. I'm one of those people who believes that life brings things to you at a certain time for a certain reason, and if you just go with it, that's where the best moments come from.

  Ashlee Simpson

  Mom, Believe, People

  "Ashlee Simpson Doesn't Envy Sister Jessica's Single-Girl Freedom" by Michael Y. Park, people.com. September 10, 2009.

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• It is no secret that any talented player must in his soul be an artist, and what could be dearer to his heart and soul than the victory of the subtle forces of reason over crude material strength! Probably everyone has his own reason for liking the King`s Gambit, but my love for it can be seen in precisely those terms.

  David Bronstein

  Kings, Heart, Artist

  David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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