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Reason Quotes (page 165)

The fact was that he had ceased to believe not for this reason or the other, but because he had not the religious temperament. W. Somerset Maugham
For some time there was a widely held notion (zealously fostered by the daily press) to the effect that the 'thinking ocean' of Solaris was a gigantic brain, prodigiously well-developed and several million years in advance of our own civilization, a sort of 'cosmic yogi', a sage, a symbol of omniscience, which had long ago understood the vanity of all action and for this reason had retreated into an unbreakable silence. Stanislaw Lem
Augustus de Morgan quote: "The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning..."
The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination. Augustus de Morgan
Imaginary’ universes are so much more beautiful than this stupidly constructed ‘real’ one; and most of the finest products of an applied mathematician’s fancy must be rejected, as soon as they have been created, for the brutal but sufficient reason that they do not fit the facts. G. H. Hardy
Such a captive maiden, having plenty of time to think, soon realizes that her tower, its height and architecture, are like her ego only incidental: that what really keeps her where she is is magic, anonymous and malignant, visited on her from outside and for no reason at all. Having no apparatus except gut fear and female cunning to examine this formless magic, to understand how it works, how to measure its field strength, count its lines of force, she may fall back on superstition, or take... Thomas Pynchon
Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are forced to understand their reasons for doing things and then you are weakened. Margaret Atwood
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money! Charles Dickens
All of history is moving toward one great goal, the white-hot worship of God and His Son among all the peoples of the earth. Missions is not that goal. It is the means. And for that reason it is the second greatest human activity in the world. John Piper
Human reason is beautiful and invincible. No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books, No sentence of banishment can prevail against it. It puts what should be above things as they are. It does not know Jew from Greek nor slave from master. Czeslaw Milosz
Dale Carnegie quote: "One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because..."
One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses. Dale Carnegie
People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they'll go to any length to live longer. But don't think that's the reason most people run. Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest. If you're going to while away the years, it's far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive then in a fog, and I believe running helps you to do that. Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the... Haruki Murakami
I don't like taking from anyone. I'd rather be a giver, though not for any worthy reason. It's about control, obviously. If I give, I control; if I take, I am controlled. If someone offers me something for free I am at once suspicious. Margaret Forster
Stephenie Meyer quote: "There was no reason for Bella Swan to cross paths with me. She..."
There was no reason for Bella Swan to cross paths with me. She would be avoided like the plague she was. Stephenie Meyer
Immanuel Kant quote: "Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to..."
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason. Immanuel Kant
J. P. Morgan quote: "A man always has two reasons for what he does--a good one, and..."
A man always has two reasons for what he does--a good one, and the real one. J. P. Morgan

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