Reasonableness Quotes (page 72)

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• pointed
• reasonable
• reasonably

The only reason to delay at this point was because the immediate prospect was so deeply uninviting. J. K. Rowling

• silence
• world
• reasonable

The world is everything that is the case...Wherof we cannot speak reasonably, we must pass over in silence. Ludwig Wittgenstein

• earth
• determination
• single

Rules?" said Roark. "Here are my rules: what can be done with one substance must never be done with another. No two materials are alike. No two sites on earth are alike. No two buildings have the same purpose. The purpose, the site, the material determine the shape. Nothing can be reasonable or beautiful unless it's made by one central idea, and the idea sets every detail. A building is alive, like a man. Its integrity is to follow its own truth, its one single theme, and to serve its own... Ayn Rand

• communication
• communicative
• communicate

The reason that cliches become cliches is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication. Terry Prachett

• money
• wife
• persistence

...that thing that's taken refuge there in that zinc bucket, without a wife, a career, a conapt, or money or the possibility of encountering any of these, still persists. For reasons unknown to me its stake in existence is greater than mine. Philip K. Dick

• meditation
• mind
• engagement

The name that no human research can discover--But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. When you notice a cat in profound meditation, The reason, I tell you, is always the same: His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation. Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: His ineffable effable. Effanineffable. Deep and inscrutable singular Name. T. S. Eliot

• caused
• must
• things

There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose Viktor E. Frankl

• job
• greatness
• computers

One of the talents of the [late] great Steve Jobs is that he [knew] how to design Medusa-like products. While every Macintosh model has had flaws (some more than others), most of them have has a sexiness and a design sensibility that has turned many consumers into instant converts. Macintosh owners upgrade far more often than most computer users for precisely this reason? (p.98) Seth Godin

• life
• lies
• character

If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which maintains itself without reason. Emile M. Cioran

• i love you
• love
• beauty

You're so beautiful but that's not why I love you, I'm not sure you know this but the reason I love you is you Avril Lavigne

• citizens
• politician
• willingly

Politicians need citizens who will permit them to behave reasonably. William Stafford

• running
• candid
• why

If somebody wants to run for office, they had better to explain why they want to run for office. Wanting to be a candidate seems, in itself, reason for exclusion. Doug Coupland

• call
• owns
• reasons

For some reason, we called it "umbrella sex"; if you fancied someone your own sex, you were "an umbrella. Kazuo Ishiguro

• manly
• wishes
• government

Government! Three-fourths parasitic and the rest stupid fumbling - oh, Harshaw concluded that man, a social animal, could not avoid government, any more than an individual could escape bondage to his bowels. But simply because an evil was inescapable was no reason to term it "good." He wished that government would wander off and get lost! (96) Robert A. Heinlein

• food
• winter
• training

They had not, under the heavens and on earth, one single weapon. They don't control the land they live on, the schools which train them, the heat and food their bodies need to live through the winter's cold, the media which gives them language, the military weapons for which they give most of their money. There is no more time in this city. Reasonable people don't let themselves dream because no dream can be true. They have a cry that bought them back to first causes: But we who have no... Kathy Acker