Quotes of: No-reason Keyword

We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.

Whoopi Goldberg

It is easier to make a camel jump a ditch than to make a fool listen to reason.

Kurdish

A dream is a strange thing. Pictures appear with terrifying clarity, the minutest details engraved like pieces of jewelry, and yet we leap unawares through huge abysses of time and space. Dreams seem to be controlled by wish rather than reason, the h...

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures of our own making. When called upon to act independently, we cry for patterns, systems, and authorities. If by enlightenment and intell...

Eclipse of Reason

It must not be forgotten that reason too needs to be sustained in all its searching by trusting dialogue and sincere friendship. A climate of suspicion and distrust, which can beset speculative research, ignores the teaching of the ancient philosophe...

Fides Et Ratio: On the Relationship Between Faith and Reason: Encyclical Letter of John Paul II

It is not at all coincidental that Darwinian psychology has the same difficulty explaining the unity and integration of human reasoning as Darwinian biology has explaining the unity and integration of irreducibly complex functions. Practical and theo...

Agents Under Fire: Materialism and the Rationality of Science

To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.' Once the reason is found, however...

Man's Search for Meaning

Here I, for instance, quite naturally want to live, in order to satisfy all my capacities for life, and not simply my capacity for reasoning, that is, not simply one twentieth of my capacity for life. What does reason know? Reason only knows what it ...

Notes from Underground

Running a race assigns a point to a sport that often feels very pointless. It's an exuberant payoff to months of tedium. It's a way of crafting an end boss for a particularly cumbersome video game. It's a fun, monstrous reason to keep putting one foo...

The Terrible and Wonderful Reasons Why I Run Long Distances

Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.

Traditional

My species has a great many good reasons for making war, though none of them is as good as the reason for not making war.

Changing Planes

There is no reason to feel embarrassed, Krysta." "Easy for you to say! You weren't caught mentally checking out my package!" ~ Étienne and Krysta

Darkness Rises

People always have reason to hate, though they often may not find any reason for love.

Good and Evil: Two Sides of the Same Coin

We always have reason to rejoice and never have reason to complain.

The Greener Grass Conspiracy: Finding Contentment on Your Side of the Fence

No gangster is ever happy when he's at peace. The main reason he's in the business is to eliminate his enemies.

Gangster

Tüm kâinatı düzenleyen ve yöneten ilkeler gibi her bilimin de sabit ve değiştirilemez ilkeleri vardır. İnsan bu ilkeleri yapamaz ancak onları keşfedebilir.

The Age of Reason and Other Works

We need to rediscover the essence of the meaning of 'the use.' Architecture is, above all, here for a better living. Every gesture, every shape must be justified by various reasons that would reinforce their reason to be, their use, and will give mor...

Christian de Portzamparc

My assumption was that all indigenous architecture would be more fractal. My reasoning was that all indigenous architecture tends to be organized from the bottom up. As it turns out, though, my reasoning was wrong.

Ron Eglash

Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.

Zaha Hadid

may be considered a practical atheist: one who sees no reason to worship an invisible deity.

2000 Years of Disbelief

Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.

Archangel's Kiss