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If you have been in the vicinity of the sacred - ever brushed against the holy - you retain it more in your bones than in your head; and if you haven’t, no description of the experience will ever be satisfactory.
— Daniel Taylor, In Search of Sacred Places: Looking for Wisdom on Celtic Holy Islands
The most sacred thing is to be able to shut your own door.
— G.K. Chesterton
Each cherry took about three seconds to eat. Three seconds to eat, but at least five years in the making. It seemed unfair to the hard-working cherry tree. The least I could do was to devote my attention to the cherry in those three seconds, really appreciate the tartness of the skin and the faint crunching sound when I bite down. I guess it's called mindfulness. Or being in the moment, or making the mundane sacred. Whatever it is, I'm doing it more. Like the ridiculously extended thank-you list for my hummus, the fruit taboo made me more aware of the whole cherry process, the seed, the soil, the five years of watering and waiting. That's the paradox: I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.
— A.J. Jacobs, The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
None of us really has any idea how many lives we touch or what impact we have on those lives. In most cases, we will never get to see whatdifference we made, but living out loud isn’t about noticing the results. It is about doing what we came here to do, for no reason other than that it is our life purpose.
— Carolyn Baker, Collapsing Consciously: Transformative Truths for Turbulent Times
There is no one story that will replace the American dream, but storieslike this one—and there are thousands—can inform the myth or mythswe create for building and preserving the next culture. In order to do so,however, we must recognize that we cannot live without myth, for it is anessential part of our humanity. If we attempt to do so—given the fact thatsomething in us needs myth—wewill only create more myths that echothe American dream—with themes of heroism, greed, entitlement, narcissism,exploitation, exceptionalism, and myriad abuses of power. How we prepare for and navigate collapse will provide the raw materials for the myths we make and will live by in a postindustrial world.
— Carolyn Baker, Collapsing Consciously: Transformative Truths for Turbulent Times
One of the most important skills we can develop for collapse is thecapacity to listen.
— Carolyn Baker, Collapsing Consciously: Transformative Truths for Turbulent Times
Gratitude is a state of mind that inherently recognizes interdependence with the external world, whether it be other humans, nature, the sacred, or a combination of these.
— Carolyn Baker, Collapsing Consciously: Transformative Truths for Turbulent Times
The innumerable losses of industrial civilization’s collapse will, over time, bring forth a new story and a new relationship with people, resources, things, and the earth. It will necessitate living as if our very breath is a gift and every person in our lives is an opportunity to pass on the gifts we have received. The death of the old paradigm and all of the trappings of industrial civilization will providespace to forge new values, new relationships, and minimize, if not completely obliterate, the concept of debt from human consciousness.
— Carolyn Baker, Collapsing Consciously: Transformative Truths for Turbulent Times
Understanding the shadow masculine or shadow feminine in oneself iscrucial not only for enhancing one ’s own wholeness but for championingjustice between genders and all diverse groups in the community. If theshadow is not recognized and dealt with, it will dominate an individual or . . . community, resulting in untold suffering.
— Carolyn Baker, Collapsing Consciously: Transformative Truths for Turbulent Times
A ritual becomes the match that lights the kindred celebration candle of sacred moments long ago… tantalizing these entombed spirits to surface again.
— Wes Adamson
If we can practice opening to the crises in our personal lives as teaching moments, as evolutionary stepping stones, we will be far better prepared emotionally and spiritually for the trauma that collapse will foist on us and everyone around us.
— Carolyn Baker, Collapsing Consciously: Transformative Truths for Turbulent Times
Fundamentally, what all forms of positive thinking about collapse come down to is our own fear of death.
— Carolyn Baker, Collapsing Consciously: Transformative Truths for Turbulent Times
If collapse is anything, it is a planetary immersion in the maelstrom ofparadox. Unless we understand and honor paradox, we will end up, like all ofthe mainstream media on earth, asking all of the wrong questions.
— Carolyn Baker, Collapsing Consciously: Transformative Truths for Turbulent Times
You are free. Your mind belongs to you. Your thoughts are yours. Honor the sacred territory of your freedom and individuality.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
There’s a dream I keep having,“ Sheridan whispered into the telephone. “The dream has always been the same—until tonight.”“And what happened tonight?” asked Lil’ John.Sheridan hesitated, his words stumbling out in tentative phrases: “The man in my dream . . . he spoke to me for the first time . . . he told me of a sacred gift that had been lost . . . a gift that could save the world.”“Your dream,” John urged gently. “Is the gods conspiring to give you freedom, just like the elders sang that night in the Sundance ceremony:”When worlds collideThere sounds a tollingA call to riseAnd seize the momentThe gods conspireTo give us freedomWhen worlds collideThe journey has begunSheridan pulled at the collar of his t-shirt, Lil’ John’s words suffocating him. Pushing back from the precipice of dread, Sheridan strained to speak, his husky words weak and staggering: “What are you saying?”“Your search for the sacred gift has already begun . . .
— Phillip R. White
Jocelyn recognized reading as a sacred pastime and usually wouldn't interrupt Clary in the middle of a book, even to yell at her.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
And remember: the flesh is as sacred as it is profane.
— Brian McGreevy, Hemlock Grove
Angie was where most of me began and all of me ended.
— Dennis Lehane, Sacred
The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree they are worshipped precisely because they are hierophanies, because they show something that is no longer stone or tree but sacred, the ganz andere or 'wholly other.
— Mircea Eliade
Who would want to enter the soiled Temple of Justice, wherein lies the corpse of justice, slain by her very guardians? And now her killers make mock of the sacred process, selling replicas of her blind virtue to the highest bidder.
— Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
Sacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit.
— S.M. Stirling, Lord of Mountains
Time has been given to us as a sacred covenant, that if wasted will haunt us throughout eternity, in the form of regret
— Steven Redhead, The Solution
...I learn about the sacred in the everyday - I look in your face...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
From the outset, Protestantism rejected the critical medieval distinction between the 'sacred' and 'secular' orders. While this position can easily be interpreted as a claim for the desacralization of the sacred, it can equally well be understood as a claim for the sacralization of the secular. As early as 1520, Luther had laid the fundamental conceptual foundations for created sacred space within the secular. His doctrine of the 'priesthood of all believers' asserted that there is no genuine difference of status between the 'spiritual' and the 'temporal' order. All Christians are called to be priests - and can exercise that calling within the everyday world. The idea of 'calling' was fundamentally redefined: no longer was it about being called to serve God by leaving the world; it was now about serving God in the world.
— Christianity's Dangerous Idea: The Protestant Revolution: A History from the Sixteenth Century to the Twenty-First
Much of life appears mundane at the time. Yet in God's providence every moment includes significant details arranged by His divine hand.
— Dillon Burroughs, Thirst No More: A One-Year Devotional Journey
...I've marked our sacred place not with stones - I've put it my art to keep it safe...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
To me, the word wisdom means ancient knowledge. It’s the kind of knowledge you not only see but feel when you look into the eyes of an elephant or stop for a moment to marvel at the deep wrinkles on its skin, both of which I believe contain the truths learned from each intentional step their feet and those of their ancestors have placed upon the earth.
— Molly Friedenfeld
Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind. This is different from what we call "history." Mythical stories, when you trace them back to their origin, often have a sacredness, a holy quality that comes from the bedrock of lore from which they emerged.
— Gerald Hausman, The American Storybag
You’re too focused. Too high-strung. Too…” Eros trails off as he continues to look into Levi’s blue eyes. “Too caught up with being in love.
— Shanora Williams
Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him, or that frozen yogurt can make a man invisible, and he is likely to require as much evidence as anyone else, and to be persuaded only to the extent that you give it. Tell him that the book he keeps by his bed was written by an invisible deity who will punish him with fire for eternity if he fails to accept its every incredible claim about the universe, and he seems to require no evidence what so ever.
— Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.
— Erich Segal, Love Story
Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
— Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four
People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.
— Blaise Pascal, Pensées
Reason must know the heart's reasons and every other reason
— Leonora Carrington
Stephanie had no problem doing what shewas told, just so long as she was given a good reason why sheshould.
— Derek Landy
Reason obeys itself
—  and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
A man always has two reasons for what he does--a good one, and the real one.
— J.P. Morgan
Some arrogant feel very confident that they are the best.That's pity. Much better men let them feel so for a reason.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
— Oscar Wilde
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart — the best brain.
— Robert G. Ingersoll, The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. IX
There iz no alternativ. Every possible reezon that could ever be offered for altering the spelling of wurds, stil exists in full force; and if a gradual reform should not be made in our language, it wil proov that we are less under the influence of reezon than our ance
— Noah Webster
Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence.
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own c
— Sting, Nothing Like the Sun
Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it.
— A.C. Grayling, The Heart of Things: Applying Philosophy to the 21st Century
...there is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
there are times when life's ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed
— Richard Wright
Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision. Strong wind, earthquake-shock, and fire may pass by: but I shall follow the guiding of that still small voice which interprets the dictates of conscience.
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
You will find that reason, which always ought to direct mankind, seldom does; but that passions and weaknesses commonly usurp its seat, and rule in its stead.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
Emotion and instinct were the basis of all our decisions, our actions, everything we valued, the way we saw the world. Reason and rationality were a thin coat of paint on a ragged surface.
— Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Reason is flawless, de jure, but reasoners are not, de facto.
— Peter Kreeft, Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics
I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.
— Leo Szilard
Reasons aren't really things that make you do other things. Reasons are things that you make up, much later, to reassure everyone that we are all logical and that the world makes sense. We do unreasonable things, because we want to, at the time. No reason. Much later we sit in the wreckage, building reasons out of little bits of wreckage, so we'll have something to show the crash investigators. Look, this is what caused it. So the whole mess at least appears reasonable. So we can convince ourselves that at least there was a reason for the disaster, something we can prevent or avoid, so it'll never happen again. But a lot of the time there's no reason. We just flew it to the ground. Because we felt like it. And we're still dangerous. And it could happen again anytime. Its easier to live with each other afterwards if we give each other reasons.
— Julian Gough, Juno & Juliet
To think or not to think? That is the new question.
— Nadina Boun, The Thinking Man, Paralysis by Analysis
To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.
— Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
There had to be a reason why they were not going to marry. They had both been so adamant about it.What the devil was the reason?
— Mary Balogh, Slightly Scandalous
Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.
— Nicola Abbagnano
love has a very dulling effect on the brain
— Elizabeth Peters, Borrower of the Night
When our patterns are threatened by new facts, reason is seldom the victor: 'I know what I think, so don't go confusing me with new opinions.
— Marianne Fredriksson, Hanna's Daughters
The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.
— Ellis Peters, Brother Cadfael's Penance
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
— Immanuel Kant
All order, I've come to understand, is theoretical, unreal — a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities, the self and the world — two snake pits.
— John Gardner, Grendel
Reason is the hero who breaks the chains of our prejudice, saving us from the prison of our comfortable acquiescence in the way of the world.
— Montague Brown
So how does one go about proving something like this? It's not like being a lawyer, where the goal is to persuade other people; nor is it like a scientist testing a theory. This is a unique art form within the world of rational science. We are trying to craft a "poem of reason" that explains fully and clearly and satisfies the pickiest demands of logic, while at the same time giving us goosebumps.
— Paul  Lockhart, A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form
She was aware that reason had left the room. She was not sorry to see it go.
— Libby Creelman, The Darren Effect
The notion of literature as only one of several avenues to a single typeof propositional knowledge is, of course, hardly the winning ticket in lit-crit today. More typical are sentiments that see such a notion as not even admissible, if at all desirable. The world of these academic refuseniks is, however, a bleak and sterile place. Disarmed by their own epistemic fiat, scholars cannot assert anything since they deny the idea of objective rationality. If they arrive at an insight whose truth they wish to defend – for example that truth and rationality are passé – they can’t do so because truth and rationality are constructed to be constructed.
— Peter Swirski, Of Literature and Knowledge: Explorations in Narrative Thought Experiments, Evolution, and Game Theory
Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us.
— Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana
I studied mathematics which is the madness of reason.
— Benjamin Moser, Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector
Like two side to a coin, there are two sides to life: your reason and emotional facets.
— Ami Blackwelder
He that will not reason is a bigot
—  he that cannot reason is a fool
Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.
— Walter Kirn
Ideals make reason inaccessible.
— Floriano Martins
Perhaps, if I use my reason in good faith, I may suceed in discovering some ray of probability to lighten me in the dark night of nature. And if this faint dawn which I seek does not come to me, I shall be consoled to think that my ignorance is invincible; that knowledge which is forbidden me is assuredly useless to me; and that the great Being will not punish me for having sought a knowledge of him and failed to obtain it.
— Voltaire, A Treatise on Toleration and Other Essays
There is no season and no reason for love. Love is not seasonal its perennial.
— Amit Abraham
Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human needs and serving human interests.
— Isaac Asimov
Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?
— Anthony Burgess
Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives a temporary relief.
— Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist
It's been said before: 'The sleep of reason produces monsters.
— Apostolos Doxiadis, Logicomix: An epic search for truth
What is reasonable is real
—  that which is real is reasonable.
In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance
— Thomas Jefferson
Does religious conviction provide a powerful reason for killing? Undeniably it often does. It also often provides the sole compelling reason for refusing to kill, or for being merciful, or for seeking peace; only the profoundest ignorance of history could prevent one from recognizing this. For the truth is that religion and irreligion are cultural variables, but killing is a human constant.
— David Bentley Hart, Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies
To irrational principles, one cannot be loyal. Ideas that are not derived from reality cannot be consistently practiced in reality.--as quoted by Leonard Peikoff in "Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
— Ayn Rand
Having learnt from experiment and argument that a stone falls downwards, a man indubitably believes this, and always expects the law he has learnt to be fulfilled.But learning just as certainly that his will is subject to laws, he does not and cannot believe it.However often experiment and reasoning may show a man that under the same conditions and with the same character he will do the same thing as before, yet when, under the same conditions and with the same character, he approaches for the thousandth time the action that always ends in the same way, he feels as certainly convinced as before the experiment that he can act as he pleases. Every man, savage or sage, however incontestably reason and experiment may prove to him that it is impossible to imagine two different courses of action in precisely the same conditions, feels that without this irrational conception (which constitutes the essence of freedom) he cannot imagine life. He feels that, however impossible it may be, it is so, for without this conceptions of freedom not only would he be unable to understand life, but he would be unable to live for a single moment.He could not live, because all man's efforts, all his impulses to life, are only efforts to increase freedom. Wealth and poverty, fame and obscurity, power and subordination, strength and weakness, health and disease, culture and ignorance, work and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are only greater or lesser degrees of freedom.A man having no freedom cannot be conceived of except as deprived of life.If the conception of freedom appears to reason a senseless contradiction, like the possibility of performing two actions at one and the same instant of time, or of an effect without a cause, that only proves that consciousness is not subject to reason.
— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
There is no problem the mind of man can set that the mind of man cannot solve.
— Samuel Johnson
The World's Fair audience tended to think of the machine as unqualifiedly good, strong, stupid and obedient. They thought of it as a giant slave, an untiring steel Negro, controlled by Reason in a world of infinite resources.
— Robert Hughes, The Shock of the New
Autumn has come and reason has gone. Yesterday, I sold the sun for you and tonight the stars are running away from me. When you first spoke, you slowly annihilated my world. Your mouth was like the sea — in your kisses I sank. Your hands were like the ocean — in your caresses I sank. I ask for no salvation on this moonless night. I only ask for more Autumn.
— Kamand Kojouri
Reason. The point where man begins to find that he exists.
— Viorel Muha  August 2012
Reason is the beheaded king, emotion the slave revolt
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Book of Wisdom
I'm an old-fashioned guy. I believe in the Enlightenment, and reason, and logic, and you know, facts.
— Barack Obama
The age of reason may have had its golden age, but the age of emotion endures forever.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Book of Wisdom
Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliche. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.
— Paul R. Halmos, I Want to Be a Mathematician: An Automathography
We think there's a reason for everything, as if life was supposed to make sense. It's not exactly math. People aren't numbers. Everybody knows life doesn't make any sense at all, so we just better deal with the whole mess. Have a beer. Have a cup of coffee. Have a piece of cake. Go out to a movie. Enjoy the Popcorn.
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, He Forgot to Say Goodbye
This was true, she knew. Being involved with him gave her the privileged position of knowing him intimately. There were nights when he would wake up sweating, the nightmares returning out of the blue after a peaceful period sometimes weeks long. Growing up in the middle of a fierce civil war could indelibly mark a child. To Mykl, birthdays were always just another year under the belt, where the only reason to celebrate was that you weren’t dead yet. She took his hand, squeezed it tight and led him inside.
— Christina Engela, Dead Beckoning
Let us eat, drink, and love for tomorrow we die, would be in fact the language of reason, the morality of life; and who but a fool would part with a reality for a fleeting shadow?
— Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
The will is conceived as a faculty of determining oneself to action in accordance with the conception of certain laws. And such a faculty can be found only in rational beings.
— Immanuel Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Everything feels like the end of the world, and you can't reason with someone who can't see tomorrow.
— Linda Howard, Cry No More
In the world of primitive savages, religion and bigotry go hand in hand. But, in the world of civilized humans, religion and reason must go hand in hand.
— Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism
The reason why I smile even in the midst of the storm is because I know that Jesus Christ will carry me through.
— Gift Gugu Mona
Even as to himself, a man cannot pretend to know what he is in himself from the knowledge he has by internal sensation. For as he does not as it were create himself, and does not come by the conception of himself a priori but empirically, it naturally follows that he can obtain his knowledge even of himself only by the inner sense, and consequently only through the appearances of his nature and the way in which his consciousness is affected. At the same time, beyond these characteristics of his own subject, made up of mere appearances, he must necessarily suppose something else as their basis, namely, his ego, whatever its characteristics in itself may be... Now man really finds in himself a faculty by which he distinguishes himself from everything else, even from himself as affected by objects, and that is reason. This being pure spontaneity is even elevated above the understanding. For although the latter is a spontaneity and does not, like sense, merely contain intuitions that arise when we are affected by things (and are therefore passive), yet it cannot produce from its activity any other conceptions than those which merely serve to bring the intuitions of sense under rules, and thereby to unite them in one consciousness, and without this use of the sensibility it could not think at all; whereas, on the contrary, reason shows so pure a spontaneity in the case of what I call "ideas" [Ideal Conceptions] that it thereby far transcends everything that the sensibility can give it, and exhibits its most important function in distinguishing the world of sense from that of understanding, and thereby prescribing the limits of the understanding itself.
— Immanuel Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals: & the Metaphysical Elements of Ethics
From an outside viewpoint it seems as if I had almost all a man could ask in reason. But when was a strong man in the grip of love ever reasonable? I think the Almighty took a pretty grave responsibility when He made men as He did. If I had been He, and understood the forces I was handling, I would have been too big a coward to do it.
— Gene Stratton-Porter, The Harvester
If you will not hear reason, she'll rap your knuckles.
— Benjamin Franklin, The Way to Wealth
Never do something for just one reason.
— Jeff VanderMeer, Authority
We have built a thousand temples to Fortune and not one to Reason.
— Marcus Cornelius Fronto
A safe and inclusive society is worthless if a person cannot speak their mind. Censorship and manufactured outrage are the problem and not the solution.
— Carmine Savastano, Two Princes And A King: A Concise Review of Three Political Assassinations
If you think the reason you exist or go to school is just to satisfy your selfish ambitions, then you are of all men most miserable
— Topsy Gift
It is not what we choose that is important
—  it is the reason we choose it.
Many of my colleagues operate from a mistaken notion that rational thought can come from only objective discourse, devoid of emotions. To me, speaking from the heart and with passion is not antagonistic to reason.
— David Sue, Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice, Instructor's Manual
Everything happens for a reason, and nothing is an accident. It is all part of a much larger divine plan.
— Farah Oomerbhoy, The Last of the Firedrakes
The light obtained by setting straw men on fire is not what we mean by illumination.
— Adam Gopnik
He always maintained that we fear something because we recognize it as fearsome through rational inferences, and that only the reason had any power; the heart had none. While I ate well and drank well, he kept demonstrating to me the advantages of reason... In striving after the positive, the poor man had argued away all life's splendour, all the sunbeams, all the faith and all the flowers, leaving nothing but the cold, positive grave.
— Heinrich Heine, Die Harzreise
Recently I am so much in to numbers, equations & scientific facts! I learned how to link logic to reason, and to be honest sometimes I couldn't, simply because logic is not stander defined, it defers from one to another (it is the science of reasoning), that made me think deeply about life, what is the real reason behind all the unbelievable stories in my life, how can I discover the logic behind what is happening behind the scene! Then it hit me, I discovered that everything is supernaturally working in harmony to serve me at the end, no matter how hard it felt ! I was granted hope in different ways, only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found, Because of the only logic I found I am able to be alive now! Amazing how God love us, yet we are so blind to see it, because we accept blessings as a given right!
— Raouf Ayoub
Don’t keep running the race of life with the same heavy load of mistakes and indecisiveness! You may grow weary and weary! Mistakes lead to discovery, but not all the time! Mind your mind, and for a moment, realize where you have reach, and drop your loads!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Reason forbade me many things which,Instinctively, my nature was attracted to;And a perpetual loss I feel if, knowing,I believe a falsehood or deny the truth.
— Abul 'Ala' Al-Ma'arri
Unfortunately, love is more often an alibi than a reason.
— Luigina Sgarro
But that is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.
— Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
I’m glad your self-righteousness has given you some exercise, but you forget: we are not such a tidy, reasonable, and humane race. Our thoughts don’t stand in grammatical rows, our hearts don’t draw equations, our consciences don’t have the benefit of historians whispering the answers to us.
— Josiah Bancroft, Senlin Ascends
There is nothing 'honorable' or 'reasonable' in giving a pass to those who want to discriminate.
— DaShanne Stokes
There is no reason to celebrate if God does not provide the victory
— Sunday Adelaja
All love is blind to reason, and maybe that's why some people are so strong.
— Robert Holdstock, The Hollowing
Who are "THEY", you are one of "They" and they are the people/humans.
— Deyth Banger
It might have been the real reason I went out there at all, to hear all the nice things guys had to say when they got you alone, when they earned their shot in a booth with you.
— Drew Nellins Smith, Arcade
We magistrates find that reason is the easiest thing in the world to dispense with; banished from our law courts as it is from our heads, we delight in trampling it underfoot, and that is what makes our judicial sentences such masterpieces, since (although commonsense never presides in them) those sentences are carried out with as much firmness as if people knew what they actually meant.
— Marquis de Sade, Betrayal
Let them spend their time condemning every action of persons they do not like; by this let them revoke their own condemnation licenses: no one will take them seriously when it comes time to condemn something that really needs to be condemned, and thus hear, hear, despite the excess noise, the reasonable voices may prevail.
— Criss Jami
If they finally move, is it because they are warm enough, or is it that they are stiff, or bored?
— Lydia Davis, Can't and Won't: Stories
Bailey took an exasperated breath and sat up in the seat. “You can’t reason with a teenage girl.”Elise’s eyebrow shot up. “Bailey, you’re a teenage girl.”“Exactly.
— Heather McVea, Hidden Elements
... for miracles to happen, God, need our cooperation. As Pastor Charles once told me, God can throw us a rope to save us, but we have to hold to it.
— Stevan V. Nikolic, Truth According to Michael
The mindset of a believer every time he opens the Bible must be the conviction that whatever the Bible says is true. We cannot trust our reason to determine what is true or false, right or wrong.
— Michael P.V. Barrett, Beginning at Moses: A Guide to Finding Christ in the Old Testament
What saves us from succumbing to utter meaninglessness is not reason but instinct.
— Marty Rubin
It may be crazy, but I'm the closest thing I have to a voice of reason.
— Gil Scott-Heron
So... what was the reason to don't be social!???...Oh, thanks Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution for reminding me.
— Deyth Banger
The saddest thing about these imagined deathbed conversions is that, even if they were real, they could hardly be seen as victories for Christ. They are stories in which the final pain of a fatal disease, or the fear of imminent death and eternal punishment, is identified as the factor necessary for otherwise rational people to believe in the supernatural.If mental torture is required to effect a conversion, what does that say about the reliability of the fundamental premises of Christianity to begin with? Evangelicals would be better advised to concentrate on converting the living. Converting the deceased suggests only that they can't convince those who can argue back. They should let the dead rest in peace.
— Lawrence M. Krauss
The difficulty is that, so long as unreason prevails, a solution of our troubles can only be reached by chance; for while reason, being impersonal, makes universal co-operation possible, unreason, since it represents private passions, makes strife inevitable. It is for this reason that rationality, in the sense of an appeal to a universal and impersonal standard of truth, is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species.
— Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
God has put enough into the world to make faith in Him a most reasonable thing. But He has left enough out to make it impossible to live by sheer reason or observation alone.
— Ravi Zacharias
you are the cause by which I die
— Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
If they want to you out... they will find always a reason for that.
— Deyth Banger
The reason for the peculiar name could be found in the whimsical sense of humor of the early colonists who arrived on Deanna several decades in the past and found very little at all there to laugh at. Obsidian Crows might seem funny at first, unless you just happened to ride over one with your Jeepo five miles out of town and didn’t have a spare tire. Although there was a reasonable expectation of hitting one of these diminutive brutes on the roads, this did not happen nearly as often as you might think.
— Christina Engela, Dead Man's Hammer
We’re here to execute a murderer,” Zil said, pointing at Hunter. “We are bringing justice in the name of all normals.”“There’s no justice without a trial,” Astrid said.Zil grinned. He spread his hands. “We had a trial, Astrid. And this chud scum was found guilty of murdering a normal.“The penalty,” he added, “is death.”Astrid turned to face the mob. “If you do this, you’ll never forgive yourselves.”“We’re hungry,” a voice cried, and was immediately echoed by others.“You’re going to murder a boy in a church?” Astrid demanded, pointing toward the church. “A church? In God’s house?”Zil could see that those words had an effect. There were some nervous looks.“You will never wash the stain of this off your hands,” Astrid cried. “If you do this, you will never be able to forget it. What do you think your parents would say?”“There are no parents in the FAYZ. No God, either,” Zil said. “There’s just humans trying to stay alive, and freaks taking everything for themselves.
— Michael  Grant, Hunger
Apathy.The reason you may wake up one day being not only a 2nd class citizen, but a criminal because of who you are - and then wonder why 'somebody' didn't do something when there was still time?
— Christina Engela, Blachart
Interestingly enough, every time I corner a fanatic with scientific facts which they cannot argue or disprove, they either dismiss me as 'anti-God' and a 'secular humanist' or they start spouting reams of misapplied and irrelevant 'scripture' at me, like good little sheeple and like that will in any way, shape or form prove anything... Which just proves to me that common sense and actual reason doesn't come into it. Only hatred.
— Christina Engela, Demonspawn
She reminded herself that all things happened for a reason. In thy book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was one of them. Surely God had a plan larger than Dinah's.
— Lorna Jane Cook, Outside Wonderland
Play with reason and doubt will close all the gates
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Every time he saw her, he realised the reason why they always said humans are made of stardust.
— Akshay Vasu
Every season has a reason. Summer cannot do the works of winter, nor winter the works of summer. Each season is unique yet so important, so cherish the seasons in your life.
— Gugu Mona
The great misfortune of our generation is that the direction which by the amazing progress of the natural sciences has been given to its interests is not one which assists us in comprehending the larger process of which as individuals we form merely a part or in appreciating how we constantly contribute to a common effort without either directing it or submitting to orders of others.
— Friedrich A. Hayek
Every person is born for a reason, you really need to know yours.
— Gugu Mona
Just be yourself and live life, because no one knows with surety what we are doing here on Earth. Some might guess, but that doesn't mean their opinions are correct.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Vision
The circular wind is life. What was yesterday comes again tomorrow. It runs from place to place and returns. But in the midst of disorder is reason. And if you can hold to reason, you shall be safe.
— Cecilia Ekbäck, Wolf Winter
I'm sure for that comming there was a reason, but what's going to happen with that reason and Gotham?
— Deyth Banger
After all you didn't answer "Why?", why you close and reject it... "Not Interested", doesn't sound like a reason, does it?
— Deyth Banger
When I look back to where I come from, I realize it's for a good reason that God changed my life.
— Gugu Mona
A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
— Thomas Aquinas
What would the world come to if people kept carrying grudges against all reason? That has been the cross of Sicily, where men are so busy with vendettas they have no time to earn bread for their families.
— Mario Puzo, The Godfather
A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational
— Thomas Aquinas
Popularity makes no sense If your fame is a shame.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims
Through Sade and Goya, the Western world received the possibility of transcending its reason in violence....
— Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
for a purpose without reason
— Donald Kingsbury, Courtship Rite
Actually I've never seen a cycle-maintenance problem complex enough really to require full-scale formal scientific method. Repair problems are not that hard. When I think of formal scientific method an image sometimes comes to mind of an enormous juggernaut, a huge bulldozer-slow, tedious, lumbering, laborious, but invincible. It takes twice as long, five times as long, maybe a dozen times as long as informal mechanic's techniques, but you know in the end you're going to get it. There's no fault isolation problem in motorcycle maintenance that can stand up to it. When you've hit a really tough one, tried everything, racked your brain and nothing works, and you know that this time Nature has really decided to be difficult, you say, "Okay, Nature, that's the end of the nice guy," and you crank up the formal scientific method.
— Robert M. Pirsig
Probably I'm boring, but I have a reason about it and I'm doing behind this, so take it, like it's a fake face.
— Deyth Banger
She had made reason and common sense her gods. She had allowed people who did not know what she knew or understand what she unstood to be her mentors.
— Mary Balogh, Bespelling Jane Austen
If you could not do much in the month of April with five letters, think of what really you can do with the month of May with three letters before you open the door of the month of June with four letters. Which is the break time for the entire twelve months of the year. Until you clearly understand how you are spending the year, you shall finish spending it and ponder over how you spent it, year after year! No one is absolutely free from excuses and the challenges of life. You just have to do something great with each day in the year!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
— Thomas Jefferson
some things you endure for a reason
— Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
Time heals what reason cannot.
— Seneca
You are already that which you want to be, and your refusal to believe it is the only reason you do not see it.
— Neville Goddard
The fact is you cannot be intelligent merely by choosing your opinions. The intelligent man is not the man who holds such-and-such views but the man who has sound reasons for what he believes and yet does not believe it dogmatically. And opinions held for sound reasons have less emotional unity than the opinions of dogmatists because reason is non-party, favouring now one side and now another. That is what people find so unpleasant about it.
— Bertrand Russell, Mortals and Others: American Essays 1931-35
You Mabden seem to think that happiness must be bought with misery... It is not easy for Vadhagh to understand that. We believe -- believed -- that happiness was a natural condition of reasoning beings.
— Michael Moorcock, The Knight of the Swords
The miracle of wonder is sacred writing.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Everything has a reason, though it cannot always be deduced for we cannot see the full picture of a life at any point in time.
— Indu Muralidharan, The Reengineers
I accept the fact that there is always a way out in every situation we find ourselves but, until we begin to ponder, panacea will be very scarce
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
If your hands don't find something they can do, they will find a reason to find that which they can't do
— Goitsemang Mvula
Once in jail or you just go in prison for a reason you don't have rights... So be wise, think twice and don't go there!
— Deyth Banger
For everything there is a reason. Just go and search it in the big mess!
— Deyth Banger
I will no longer argue with the senseless and unreasonable
—  for they are void of reason and common sense.
I may not know why, but I do know why not and this is where I stand.
— J.R. Rim
Human reason reduced to its own resources is perfectly worthless, not only for creating but also for preserving any political or religious association, because it only produces disputes, and, to conduct himself well, man needs not problems but beliefs. His cradle should be surrounded by dogmas, and when his reason is awakened, it should find all his opinions ready-made, at least all those relating to his conduct. Nothing is so important to him as prejudices, Let us not take this word in a bad sense. It does not necessarily mean false ideas, but only, in the strict sense of the word, opinions adopted before any examination. Now these sorts of opinions are man’s greatest need, the true elements of his happiness, and the Palladium of empires. Without them, there can be neither worship, nor morality, nor government. There must be a state religion just as there is a state policy; or, rather, religious and political dogmas must be merged and mingled together to form a complete common or national reason strong enough to repress the aberrations of individual reason, which of its nature is the mortal enemy of any association whatever because it produces only divergent opinions. All known nations have been happy and powerful to the extent that they have more faithfully obeyed this national reason, which is nothing other than the annihilation of individual dogmas and the absolute and general reign of national dogmas, that is to say, of useful prejudices. Let each man call upon his individual reason in the matter of religion, and immediately you will see the birth of an anarchy of belief or the annihilation of religious sovereignty. Likewise, if each man makes himself judge of the principles of government, you will at once see the birth of civil anarchy or the annihilation of political sovereignty. Government is a true religion: it has its dogmas, its mysteries, and its ministers. To annihilate it or submit it to the discussion of each individual is the same thing; it lives only through national reason, that is to say through political faith, which is a creed. Man’s first need is that his nascent reason be curbed under this double yoke, that it be abased and lose itself in the national reason, so that it changes its individual existence into another common existence, just as a river that flows into the ocean always continues to exist in the mass of water, but without a name and without a distinct reality.
— Joseph de Maistre, Against Rousseau: On the State of Nature and On the Sovereignty of the People
Alas! How sad when reasoners reason wrong.
— Sophocles, Antigone
Though argument does not create conviction, the lack of it destroys belief.
— Alister E. McGrath, If I Had Lunch with C.S. Lewis: Exploring the Ideas of C.S. Lewis on the Meaning of Life