#reason

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#brain #enemy #flesh #last #long

The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#appetites #care #cool #due #further

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#conclusions #contrary #enough #far #follow

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#function #keep #reasonable #vice #virtue

I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary. ↗

— David Byrne

#anyone #become #fit #i #place

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep. ↗

— George Byron

#man #might #reason #sleep #tell

The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves? ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#believing #fall #go #government #governments

The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored. ↗

— Scott Caan

#bored #ended #getting #i #into

People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy. ↗

— James Branch Cabell

#invite #love #love is #marry #people

And the reason for focusing on that time frame is that it's going to take us a considerable period of time to develop the new capabilities, processes and organizations that will be needed. ↗

— Stephen Cambone

#considerable #develop #focusing #frame #going