Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul.
You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it.
I weirdly feel very natural, in the physicality that comes my way, whether it's guns, cars or whatever. For some reason, it's second nature to me.
I know of no more important subject to the peace of Europe and the world than the reasonable reduction of armaments, especially in Europe, and of naval armaments throughout the world.
One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.
Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world.
The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.
The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, is true perversion.
It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.
I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.
The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation.
My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera.
When a film is successful, you don't need to shout about it from the rooftops. I don't believe in going into overdrive. There's no desperation to be acknowledged as the reason for a film's success.
The reason we shot it was that the script was geared to Las Vegas and it was something commercial that we wanted to have in the can in case Butterfly was a success and we needed a follow-up.
Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.
I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.
I think the reason I'm an actress is because I love playing kind of a more extreme people.
However, there's three reasons for doing things in this particular world. One is love, one is prestige and the other's money. If you get all three together, that's fine.
If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.
