#reason

Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the ages of eight and ten I collected avidly. I'd pore over my Stanley Gibbons book, obsessively checking my collection's value. I always hoped I'd stumble across a really valuable one, a Penny Black or an Inverted Jenny, but it wasn't to be. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#ages #always #avidly #between #black

The main reason why we look constantly to the Gita is that, whenever we need help, we may get it from the Gita. And, indeed, we always do get it. ↗

— Vinoba Bhave

#constantly #get #help #indeed #look

Reason is the presupposition of faith, and faith is the fulfillment of reason. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#faith #reason #religion #faith

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#being #call #exercise #fact #farce

God is The Reasonable One, therefore reason & faith are not antithetical" ~R. Alan Woods [2007] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#r-alan-woods #reason #faith

When things are in order, if the cause of the orderliness cannot be deduced from the motion of the elements or from the composition of matter, it is quite possibly a cause possessing a mind. ↗

— Johannes Kepler

#cause #id #intelligent-design #kepler #naturalism

Adrenaline is the reason I do what I do. ↗

— Julianne Hough

#i #i do #reason

One thing a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you can walk away from the lyric and look at it with a reasonable degree of objectivity. ↗

— Hal David

#degree #fall #his #learn #lines

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. ↗

— Josh Billings

#does #makes #mistakes #never #often

We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere to strict rules. ↗

— Evan Davis

#adhere #behaviour #cheat #conform #doing