Reason Quotes - Page 21

• Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Use, Dessert, Sumptuous

  8 Copy quote

• Maybe the reason it's easier to shrug away one who has made us their secret love is simply because we know our own flaws; we know under the right light, that illusion they believe will fall, and show us for what we really are instead of who they secretly hope us to be.

  Stefanie Schneider

  Believe, Fall, Love Is

  4 Copy quote

• We don't need to complicate all the "reasons" behind our emotions. It's much simpler than that. Two categories .. good feelings, bad feelings.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Law Of Attraction, Two, Feelings

  18 Copy quote

• Reasons to be positive. The economic downturn could be the catalyst for positive change. It should be translated into the wake-up call we need for a major change in aspirations and lifestyles to save humanity from the ecological and economic disaster that would otherwise result from continuing on the high carbon and resource depleting path we have been pursuing

  Phil Harding

  Continuing On, Humanity, Being Positive

  4 Copy quote

• As an actor, you may do things that aren't politically correct. Unless you're an actor who only does things for political reasons. I believe if we don't do the good, bad, and the ugly, we're not going to progress.

  Rosie Perez

  Believe, Political, Progress

  4 Copy quote

• Barna is correct when he writes, "After fifteen years of diligent digging into the world around me, I have reached several conclusions about the future of the Christian church in America. The central conclusion is that the American church is dying due to lack of strong spiritual leadership. In this time of unprecedented opportunity and plentiful resources, the church is actually losing influence. The primary reason is the lack of leadership. Nothing is more important than leadership."7

  Ed Stetzer

  Christian, Spiritual, Strong

  Ed Stetzer, Mike Dodson (2007). “Comeback Churches: How 300 Churches Turned Around and Yours Can Too”, p.14, B&H Publishing Group

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• That is one of the reasons I write: to feel the Presence of God and know He is speaking to me in a very personal way, instructing me, correcting me, redirecting me.

  Francine Rivers

  Writing, Way, Feels

  4 Copy quote

• "You are so close." "To whom? Margravine, not even to himself. This place, this island: all his life he's done nothing but hop from island to island. Is that a reason? Does there have to be a reason? Shall he tell you: he works for no Whitehall, non conceivable unless, ha, ha, the network of white halls in his own brain: these featureless corridors he keeps swept and correct for occasional visiting agents."

  Thomas Pynchon

  Islands, White, Brain

  "V". Book by Thomas Pynchon, 1961.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason.

  Alfie Kohn

  Moving, Punishment, Rewards

  "Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason". Book by Alfie Kohn, March 28, 2006.

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• The senses are a kind of reason. Taste, touch and smell, hearing and seeing, are not merely a means to sensation, enjoyable or otherwise, but they are also a means to knowledge - and are, indeed, your only actual means to knowledge.

  Joseph Campbell

  Adventure, Mean, Smell

  9 Copy quote

• Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?

  John Foster

  Book, Reading, Order

  7 Copy quote

• The true religion, it is said, is service to mankind; but this service seems to take the form of securing for him an unconditional victory over nature. Now this attitude is impious, for, as has been noted, it violates the belief that creation or nature is fundamentally good, that the ultimate reason for its laws is a mystery, and that acts of defiance such as are daily celebrated by the newspapers are subversive of cosmos.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Attitude, Law, Victory

  4 Copy quote

• I agree with Dreher when he writes, 'we can't build anything good unless we live by the belief that man does not exist to serve the economy, but the economy exists to serve man...A society built on consumerism must break down eventually for the same reason socialism did'

  Paul Weyrich

  Writing, Men, Doe

  4 Copy quote

• I feel certain God loves me just the way I am, and I have a huge sense of calling to communicate that to young people. The Church's teaching was the reason that I lived in so much shame and isolation and pain for all those years. But rather than abandon it and say it's broken, I want to be part of the change.

  Vicky Beeching

  Pain, Teaching, Years

  10 Copy quote

• Basketball came to me and for some reason it gave me an opportunity to live a life that I didn't dream possible. But it did let me live my dreams.

  Jerry West

  Basketball, Dream, Opportunity

  10 Copy quote

• The very existence of the bicycle is an offense to reason and wisdom.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Existence, Offense, Bicycle

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.95, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Give away everything you have learned. If for no other reason, do it selfishly; in order to get more, you must give more.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Monday, Morning

  5 Copy quote

• I've got no interest in going over to California to fight that boring git, in a fight that no one's interested in, and that's the reason why he's trying to pimp himself out everywhere.

  Carl Froch

  Motivation, Fighting, California

  4 Copy quote

• The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Jobs, Mean

  "'Drive' Not Always Explained By Rewards". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 4, 2010.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or color, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any consideration whatsoever.

  Simone Weil

  Race, Color, Needs

  "Draft for a Statement of Human Obligation" (1943)

  76 Copy quote

  Show source

• Both sides of my family had come from Ireland in the 19th century for the same reason: There was nothing to eat over there. Since then, I've tried to make up for the potato famine by making the potato the only vegetable that passes these lips.

  Art Donovan

  Vegetables, Potatoes, Sides

  8 Copy quote

• There is therefore no reason to put a limit to evolutionary possibility by taking our present organization or status of existence as final. The animal is a laboratory in which Nature has worked out man; man may very well be a laboratory in which she wills to work out superman, to disclose the soul as a divine being, to evolve a divine nature.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Animal, Men, Organization

  13 Copy quote

• One good thing about the past is that you can't change it. So there's no reason to go back. It's there. It is what it is. The only thing you can change is right now and what's happening next.

  Neil Young

  Past, Next, Good Things

  55 Copy quote

• You don't do art for any other reason than to help your soul grow.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Art, Soul, Helping

  32 Copy quote

• Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?

  Plato

  Pain, Pleasure, Standards

  Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.6136, Catholic Way Publishing

  5 Copy quote

  Show source