Reason Quotes - page 4

The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of animated nature, which we can have no reason to expect to change. (Thomas Malthus)
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Virtue is reason which has become energy. View quote
Friedrich Schlegel
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. View quote
Edmund Burke
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. View quote
Robert Frost
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life. View quote
Henry James
I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution. View quote
L. Neil Smith
The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason. View quote
John Cage
Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war. View quote
Norman Mailer
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason. (Elie Wiesel)
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one. View quote
Emil Cioran
They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom. View quote
Ben Jonson
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide. View quote
Cesare Pavese
Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics. View quote
Cesare Lombroso
If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. View quote
Edward Hopper
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude. View quote
Aphra Behn
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason. (Ninon de L'Enclos)
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit. View quote
George Santayana
Maria is the best reason to come home. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. View quote
James Baldwin
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. View quote
Galileo Galilei
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