God put enough into the world to make faith in Him a reasonable thing. But He left enough out to make it impossible to live by reason alone.
There is no lasting pleasure but contemplation; all others grow flat and insipid upon frequent use; and when a man hath run through a set of vanities, in the declension of his age, he knows not what to do with himself, if he cannot think; he saunters about from one dull business to another, to wear out time; and hath no reason to value Life but because he is afraid of death.
Some cynical people may see that the only reason I'm doing something more mainstream is part of a strategy to become more successful but I just see it as a bonus. It just happened. . . that's the way it is and there's an opportunity there and we're going to take advantage of it. I'd rather if I'm going to be working as hard as I've been working for the last two years - non-stop, solid, no personal life, no break - then I want what I've been working on to be as successful as possible. And I will take advantage of every opportunity that comes my way.
Faith is stronger than so-called reason.
God's law is 'right reason. ' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom. ' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.
I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better.
You could reason with someone who was halfway educated and appeal to his intelligence, but I felt helpless in the face of utter stupidity.
Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident
I have seen these ways of God: I know of no reason For fire and change and torture and the old returnings.
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
The reason life is so strange is that so often people have no choice.
There is always a reason to be grateful.
Regret isn't good. Every decision one makes in life is made for a reason or another. Whenever something bad happens, I go, 'This is happening for a reason', or, 'This is going to teach me something'.
For whatever reason I just remembered being six years old and my parents leaving the house and trusting me to be alone. I had an older sister, I think she was supposed to babysit me but she immediately ran across the street to her friend's house.
We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.
One reason there are so many short-lived management fads is that their prescriptions were derived and advocated in precisely this way. So managers read about a fad and try it, find that it doesn't work, abandon the effort, and move on to the next thing. In reality, it is usually the case that the faddish prescription was indeed sound advice in certain circumstances, but actually was poor advice in other circumstances.
A lot of bands that reunite do it for the wrong reasons. They do it for the bucks and everybody can sense it.
You don't become a rock star for no reason.
Aren't we most aware of our animal natures when love or hunger or hatred burns through reason and encourages us to do exactly what we desire to do, with frequently tragic results?