#reason

There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#any #basic #because #buildings #concrete

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#dangerous #man #most #play #plaything

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#blame #causes #completely #conscience #exposed

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#gestures #listen #mankind #picturesque #rather

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? ↗

— Robert Orben

#elections #ever #feeling #find #get

Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice. ↗

— Origen

#endowed #every #involved #justice #know

I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#interested #move #music #only #piece

If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#ancient rome #better #considered #dictate #foolish

That's another reason I did Daredevil: I didn't get killed off in it. ↗

— Joe Pantoliano

#daredevil #did #get #i #killed

But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#fact #failing #him #his #implicit