Quotes of: Real-reason Keyword

...the monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses. For some reason or other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish it he will wade through blood. He will ...

Tropic of Cancer

The tree in the field is to be treated with respect. It is not to be romanticized as the old lady romanticizes her cat (that is, she reads human reactions into it). . . . But while we should not romanticize the tree, we must realize that God made it ...

Pollution & the Death of Man

If [the loss of fertility of the soil and the loss of soil as a renewable resource] does happen, we are familiar enough with the nature of American salesmanship to know that it will be done in the name of the starving millions, in the name of liberty...

The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

How do we distinguish between the legitimate skepticism of those who scoffed at cold fusion, and the stifling dogma of the seventeenthcentury clergymen who, doubting Galileo's claim that the earth was not the center of the solar system, put him under...

How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life

Oh, you knew that your deed would be preserved in books, would reach tghe depths of the ages and the utmost limits of the earth, and you hoped that, following you, man, too, would remain with God, having no need of miracles. But you did not know that...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Study so that you are able to meet arguments of your opponents. Equip your ideology with supporting arguments. If you oppose a prevailing belief, if you criticize a great person who is considered to be an incarnation, you will find that your criticis...

Bhagat Singh

Yuri Orlov: The reason I'll be released is the same reason you think I'll be convicted. I *do* rub shoulders with some of the most vile, sadistic men calling themselves leaders today. But some of these men are the enemies of *your* enemies. And while...

Lord of War

Elizabeth Bennet: If I was uncivil, then that is some excuse. But I have other reasons, you know I have. Mr. Darcy: What reasons? Elizabeth Bennet: Do you think anything might tempt me to accept the hand of the man who has ruined, perhaps for ever, t...

Pride & Prejudice

William Somerset: I meant to ask you something before, when we spoke on the phone: Why here? David Mills: I don't follow. William Somerset: Why all the effort to get transferred? It's the first question that popped into my head. David Mills: I guess ...

Se7en

My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseth the disease; Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill, The uncertain sickly appetite to please. My reason, the physician to my love, Angry that his prescriptions are not kept, Hath...

William Shakespeare

It is feeling and not reasoning that drives one to prayer.' -Emma to Charles

Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith

Let us work without reasoning,' said Martin; 'it is the only way to make life endurable.

Candide

Socialism and Communism have failed, but now Capitalism is failing us.

Cast Away: For these reasons

I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.

Critique of Pure Reason

Reason is inherently expansionist. It seeks universal application.

The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology

When the heart craved something so forcefully, then reason became nothing but helpless observer.

Fearless

Maybe the reason why all the doors are closed so you could open one that leads you to the perfect road.

Firework

If you do not love, you will not be alive; if you love effectively, you will be killed.

Faith Within Reason

Committing suicide so as not to be murdered is the worst reason I've ever heard of to die.

God-Shaped Hole

We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.

Grave Peril

The old resists the new one. 'Change hurts' is the reason.

Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza