#reason

If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I don't see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#any #background #behave #common #conduct

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#anything #because #everything #learn #never

For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#come #explanation #human #human beings #music

The only reason I don't want to commit adultery is because I love my wife and I love my lord. ↗

— Joseph Prince

#because #commit #i #i love #lord

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#all things #augments #because #continually #deeds

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

#except #lost #our #perhaps #power

Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reason, and not just to mingle with the right people. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#go #just #mingle #people #reason

My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition. ↗

— Rafael Palmeiro

#back #castro #coming #communists #exhibition

He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever. ↗

— Gilbert Parker

#being #burning #came #declared #devotion

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end. ↗

— Jean Paul

#approach #becomes #before #bright #clear