No Reason Quotes

Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.

I think the reason that I like so many different games is because I like the way my brain works when I'm playing games. It's more fun.

No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

The clergy would have us believe them against our own reason, as the woman would have her husband against his own eyes.

Gentelmen heve ever been more temperate in their religion than common people, as having more reason.

The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.

It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another-but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.

The reason I am a Christian is not that it is nice, but that it is true.

The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear from thrust back, by the efforts of others to push themselves forward.

A great moment of clarity when I realized I'm dying. There's no reason to wait to do the things we want to do.

I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.

Cities aren't like people; they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver and out to sea.

As a studio, you have to have a niche. You have to provide a service and there has to be a reason for your being around.

For the greater good, I thought I should be a spiritual leader for people for some reason.

Writing a book about yourself is like therapy, and you go 'Oh My God, that's the reason that happened.' Writing about it, you're forced to really examine things.

There's only one reason we live. It's very simple. To find the creator. That's just my understanding.

This life is for us to discover the divine within. And that's really the key to life in many ways for me. And the thing is, it's not for us to reason why everything is what it is... just do it.

I'm not competing in Iowa for a reason.

Scripture is not inerrant; believers are called to interpret biblical texts in light of tradition and reason.

The only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ideas, making the bills merely bad, not disastrous.

The reason it's hard for me to tweet is I don't want to pronounce anything, and Twitter is for pronouncing.

But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons.

If I believe that abortion is wrong, and I want to convince you that it's wrong, there's no reason I should recount to you my personal narrative of how I came to believe this.

To do something innovative means that you reject reason.

I think acting is a gift. I think certain people for some reason just have a gift that they were meant to perform.

Vertigo doesn't apply in planes for some reason. You think it's some kind of magic and you don't know how it's keeping you up, but when you're on a cliff top it's a different matter.

I like irrational things. I like scenarios where I can think, 'It would be great if at this point we could do x.' And there doesn't have to be a reason for 'x'.

[...]It is as if after surviving so much, there was no longer reason to survive.

Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.

Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.

Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.

God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions, and consequently of no use to a good king or a good ministry; for which reason Courts are so overrun with politics.

To me, the reason to write about [Buckminster] Fuller is because I think that he has ideas that are incredibly pertinent.

My reading practice is one reason I mostly don't read electronically. Different books are in different rooms of my house, and one is in my backpack. Physical location tells me what book to read.

The reason the contracts are so long is because actors are very spontaneous; we may want to do Shakespeare one day and be Porky Pig the next!

What is reasoned has nothing to do with what is reasonable.

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is, and if the book has any kind of message, I suppose that's it.

It must be so, Plato, thou reason'st well!

Our obligation to the will of God is our obligation to the laws of practical reason.

What is virtue? Reason in practice.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.

The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.

Because man is endowed with Reason, he can subdue his impulses in the service of moral and religious ideals, and is born to bear rule over Nature.

To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.

If, it was natural to reason, God punishes men with eternal torment, it is surely lawful for men to use doses of it in a good cause.

If animals had reason, they would act just as ridiculous as we menfolks do.

Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have.

There's something touching about a kid who's reading a book that's printed on actual paper. I think that anything that kids start reading, within reason, can lead to other discoveries.

There's always a silver lining to every cloud and everything has to happen for a reason and if everything's really challenging, then you can make it into a positive.