Reason Quotes

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.

The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.

For some reason, I like seeing people feel emotional.

In the beginning, there were no reasons; there were only causes. Nothing had a purpose, nothing has so much as a function; there was no teleology in the world at all.

There is nothing that is an accident.

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.

We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new knowledge and fresh outlooks, which can only strengthen the most fragile and most powerful of human gifts: the gift of reason.

You don’t need a reason for doing everything in your life.

For no reason is every reason to fly you to Paris this weekend maybe for coffee at the corner and dinner on the balcony of somewhere old and somewhere new. Darling, I found my Paris in you.

The idea of feeling great at all times is purely fictional for a simple reason: we get bored of the same things, same feelings, same environments pretty quickly. If everything was always nice and great, you’d get depressed.