#reason

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#business #conscious #i #ideas #imply

The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me. ↗

— Andre Kertesz

#camera #everything #give #i #me

The reason people sweat is so they won't catch fire when making love. ↗

— Don Rose

#fire #love #making #people #reason

If any difference should be made by law between husband and wife, reason, justice and humanity, if their voices were heard, would dictate that it should be in her favor. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#between #dictate #difference #favor #heard

There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#elevation #no reason #prejudices #reason #woman

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#anger #been #closer #god #him

These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth. ↗

— William John Wills

#freely #given #pervert #powers #rare

Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic. ↗

— Nicola Abbagnano

#fallible #find #itself #logic #must

Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense? ↗

— Louis Aragon

#compare #deriving #even #knowledge #perceptible

Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#farming #interest #lots #positive #reasons