Quotes of: Wrong-reasons Keyword

The inability of Darwinian psychology to account for human reasoning is devastating to its pretensions to be a science. The prestige of science depends on the application of highly advanced practical and theoretical reason. A 'science' that is incomp...

Agents Under Fire: Materialism and the Rationality of Science

You say that it is time to shake off the Mist, but Mankind walks in a Mist; that Reason which you cry up as the Glory of this Age is a Proteus and Cameleon that changes its Shape almost in every Man: there is no Folly that may not have a thousand Rea...

Hawksmoor

I'm small, I'm young - and I'm so different. You've always respected that difference, and you've always trusted it. Trust me now. There's a reason I am the way I am, and there's a reason I was born to you. There's always a reason. We belong together.

Relentless

The next time you want to withhold your help, or your love, or your support for another for whatever the reason, ask yourself a simple question: do the reasons you want to withhold it reflect more on them or on you? And which reasons do you want defi...

Single Dad Laughing

What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or not, and desert their chosen intendeds for my sake?' 'Because they can't help it, miss,' replied the girl; 'the reason's plain.' (If Mis...

Nicholas Nickleby

Reason is not some external power which dictates how we should behave, but an internal power, integral to who we are ... Reason does not command that we love anyone. Nonetheless, reason is vital in determining whom we love and why we love them.

Personal Relationships: Love, Identity, and Morality

Unless a person can give reasons, there is, literally, no reason why anyone else should take that person seriously. But without reasons, all we are left with is emotional blackmail. We sometimes call it 'moral blackmail,' but it has nothing to do wit...

N.T. Wright

If men could see the epitaphs their friends write they would believe they had gotten into the wrong grave.

American

To do things wrong with best intentions is better than acting to the letter of the law with evil intentions.

Hebrew

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

Henry And June

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

Allan Bloom

There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious.

Nicholas Mosley

If my life had no meaning there was no reason not to end it.

Ruins

...there is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.

Notes from Underground

Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it.

The Left Hand of Darkness

Reason is flawless, de jure, but reasoners are not, de facto.

Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics

It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller.

The Time Machine

I can't. You can't rewrite the past.

Thirteen Reasons Why

A lot of you cared, just not enough.

Thirteen Reasons Why

But I do know which is the least popular. The truth.

Thirteen Reasons Why

When it comes to renewable energy, there's no reason America should settle for second best.

Martin Heinrich