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Reasonableness Quotes (page 121)

And you dared to go counter to your father's wishes? They should have been a command to you. Give me one reason, only one, why, flinging decency to the winds, you demeaned yourself by becoming a baker.' 'Hunger. W. Somerset Maugham
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They..."
...the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control. Madeleine L'Engle
He will pity us who pitied everyone ... And He will say, 'I receive them, my wise and reasonable ones, forasmuch as not one of them considered himself worthy of this thing ... Fyodor Dostoevsky
Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard. Victor Hugo
Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did. Douglas Adams
Roark smiled, "Gail, if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty. Only because I like you, for reasons and standards of my own. I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you. Ayn Rand
With his head thrust forward like a ram, Baryba pushed his way through to the front. For some reason this was necessary, he felt with all his guts that it was necessary. He clenched his iron jaws. Something bestial stirred in him, something he hungered for, some murderous instinct. To be with everybody, to howl like everybody, to hit the one that everybody else was hitting. ("A Provincial Tale") Yevgeny Zamyatin
This parting cannot be for long; for those who love as we do cannot be parted. We shall always be united in thought, and thought is a great magnet. I have often spoken to thee of reason, now i speak to thee of faith Barbara Taylor Bradford
Simone de Beauvoir quote: "I could see no reason for being sad. Its just that it makes me..."
I could see no reason for being sad. Its just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy. Simone de Beauvoir
Douglas Adams quote: "Deep in the fundamental heart of mind and Universe there is a..."
Deep in the fundamental heart of mind and Universe there is a reason. Douglas Adams
Marguerite Yourcenar quote: "It is not that I despise men. If I did I should have no right,..."
It is not that I despise men. If I did I should have no right, and no reason, to try to govern. Marguerite Yourcenar
The true reason why faith is given such an exclusive place by the New Testament, so far as the attainment of salvation is concerned, over against love and over against everything else in man...is that faith means receiving something, not doing something or even being something. To say, therefore, that our faith saves us means that we do not save ourselves even in slightest measure, but that God saves us. John Gresham Machen
Hunter S. Thompson quote: "We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for..."
We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom. Hunter S. Thompson
I endeavoured to crush these fears and to fortify myself for the trial which in a few months I resolved to undergo; and sometimes I allowed my thoughts, unchecked by reason, to ramble in the fields of Paradise, and dared to fancy amiable and lovely creatures sympathizing with my feelings and cheering my gloom; their angelic countenances breathed smiles of consolation. But it was all a dream; no Eve soothed my sorrows nor shared my thoughts ; I was alone. I remembered Adam's supplication to... Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Deepak Chopra quote: "Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom..."
Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart. Deepak Chopra

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