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Reasonableness Quotes (page 15)

She had some hidden reason of her own for attaching great importance to this choosing what her mother was to wear. What was the reason, Mrs. Ramsay wondered, standing still to let her clasp the necklace she had chosen, divining, through her own past, some deep, some buried, some quite speechless feeling that one had for one's mother at Rose's age. Like all feelings felt for oneself, Mrs. Ramsay thought, it made one sad. It was so inadequate, what one could give in return; and what Rose... Virginia Woolf
If you were an atheist, Birbal," the Emperor challenged his first minister, "what would you say to the true believers of all the great religions of the world?" Birbal was a devout Brahmin from Trivikrampur, but he answered unhesitatingly, "I would say to them that in my opinion they were all atheists as well; I merely believe in one god less than each of them." "How so?" the Emperor asked. "All true believers have good reasons for disbelieving in every god except their own," said Birbal. ... Salman Rushdie
The Light of humane minds is Perspicuous Words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity; Reason is the pace; Encrease of Science, the way; and the Benefit of man-kind, the end. And on the contrary, Metaphors, and senslesse and ambiguous words, are like ignes fatui; and reasoning upon them, is wandering amongst innumerable absurdities; and their end, contention, and sedition, or contempt. Thomas Hobbes
There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. Kurt Vonnegut
Emilie Autumn quote: "My reasons to live. Were my reasons to die. But at least they..."
My reasons to live. Were my reasons to die. But at least they were mine. Now I've freedom unbound. Cut the laces of life Emilie Autumn
There are five people you meet in heaven. Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth. This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for. Mitch Albom
But the reasons against going to New Orleans--that spicy southern city known for jazz and Mardi Gras and hospitality--were the very reasons we had to go. Howard Schultz
Jodi Picoult quote: "And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason..."
And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you. Jodi Picoult
William Shakespeare quote: "Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight, Past reason hunted,..."
Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight, Past reason hunted, and no sooner had Past reason hated William Shakespeare
The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason. Gilbert K. Chesterton
It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons, the truth is always just out of reach. Orson Scott Card
Blaise Pascal quote: "The heart has its reasons which reason knows not."
The heart has its reasons which reason knows not. Blaise Pascal
The sense of security more frequently springs from habit than from conviction, and for this reason it oftensubsists after such a change in the conditions as might have been expected to suggest alarm. The lapse of time during which a given event has not happened, is, in this logic of habit, constantly alleged as a reason why the event should never happen, even when the lapse of time is precisely the added condition which makes the event imminent. George Eliot
Now I should rather suppose there is no reason for it: it is the fashion to be unhappy. To have a reason for being so would be exceedingly commonplace: to be so without any is the province of genius. Thomas Love Peacock
W. H. Auden quote: "Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will..."
Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will not act, perish for that reason. W. H. Auden

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