Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.
I have learned to be less confident in the conclusions of human reason, and give more credit to the honesty of contrary opinions.
The Wall will be standing in 50 and even in 100 years, if the reasons for it are not removed.
That is one of the reasons I oppose this whole Affirmative Action business. We are not supposed to be judged based on what our ancestors did or suffered. We are supposed to be judged as individuals, based on what we are able to achieve.
Fear is never a good enough reason to do nothing
There's no reason the Rangers can't get to the top.
It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point.
The reason that so many fail to find happiness is that they fail to find gratitude.
Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others.
There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A.
A sombrero fell out of the sky and landed on the main street of town in front of the mayor, his cousin, and a person out of work. The day was scrubbed clean by the desert air. The sky was blue. It was the blue of human eyes, waiting for something to happen. There was no reason for a sombrero to fall out of the sky. No airplane or helicopter was passing overhead and it was not a religious holiday.
I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be disputable; because reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are certain; and beyond our knowledge we cannot do either.
I do about 90 percent of my own stunts, and the things I can't do for insurance reasons, like swinging out of a flying helicopter, I wouldn't want to do anyway.
Let reason govern desire.
Since 1978 for the bottom half of the wealth distribution male median wages have actually gone down. And I think that's a crucial reason. If you are a male worker, your median wage since 1979 has gone down.
Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.
As you start the company, you start spending spending spending ahead of revenue but then you come out of it and very quickly you should become a company that spends less than it makes. And what I mean by very quickly, is that window of time should be in that 6 to 8 year time frame. And the reason is because if you build your business model correctly it's almost unavoidable.
Most humans know their own "reason" only in the sense that Hume defined it, as "a slave to the passions"-and by "passions" he meant not moral passions or the passions of transcendent genius, but only low appetites or base desires, which society and economy ultimately shape and spur on in us.
Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb.
Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic of reason.