But there’s a reason we recognize Hamlet as a masterpiece: it’s that Shakespeare told us the truth, and people so rarely tell us the truth in this rise and fall here [indicates blackboard]. The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.
There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen.
Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
When we anticipate, we're the happiest. Unless you're on antidepressants. The reason you take antidepressants is because you can't anticipate. You think everything's going to be horrible, so it usually is.
Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.
All my dreams are coming true all across the board for some reason.
Reason, in a strict sense, as meaning the judgment of truth and falsehood, can never, of itself, be any motive to the will, and can have no influence but so far as it touches some passion or affection. Abstract relations of ideas are the object of curiosity, not of volition. And matters of fact, where they are neither good nor evil, where they neither excite desire nor aversion, are totally indifferent, and whether known or unknown, whether mistaken or rightly apprehended, cannot be regarded as any motive to action.
I dare say that quite a few people have contemplated death for reasons that much later seemed to them to be quite minor.
The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there'" (Ez. 35:10)
We have reason to believe that when, during the crusades, Europe at last began to establish hospitals, they were inspired by the Arabs of near East. . . . The first hospital in Paris, Les Quinze-vingt, was founded by Louis IX after his return from the crusade 1254-1260.
Lovers and madmen have such seething brains Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends.
Reason cannot account for those moments in life that "bewilder the intellect yet utterly quiet the heart," as G. K. Chesterton observed.
There are a few countries that, for whatever reason, really enjoy listening to my music.
Credit is a matter so subtle in its essence, that, as it may be obtained almost without reason, so, without reason, may it be made to melt away.
For some reason, people value being scared less than they value laughing.
The reason the Constitution gives judges life tenure is so they can be independent of political pressures and follow the law.
Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells.
The reason so many financial advisors are called brokers is because they are often broker than you.
Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way, the real process of thought. Thought's dictation, free from any control by the reason, independent of any aesthetic or moral preoccupation.
If you follow the ways in which you were trained, which you may have inherited, for no other reason than this, you are illogical.