#reason

If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those aspirations, then I think the U.S. is justified in dealing with that, if necessary, by military force. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#aspirations #attack #believe #capability #dealing

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do. ↗

— Rihanna

#being #dress #enjoy #figure #i

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#away #fade #guidelines #infancy #intelligence

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#anything #before #claims #else #enlightenment

The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#artist #begins #explain #his #likes

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

#darkness #derived #god #hypothesis #immediate

I mean it's easier to be in a demonstration if it's a trip that's one of the reasons why the whole thing fell apart in 1971, because it wasn't a trip any longer. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#apart #because #demonstration #easier #fell

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#building #clock #come #communism #concrete

I don't think Will does get upstaged because his reaction is always funnier than what is actually happening. That is also the reason Tommy is funnier than Will. ↗

— Barry Sonnenfeld

#also #always #because #does #funnier

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason. ↗

— Robert South

#clearer #great #reason