#reason

The thing about playing gods, whether you're playing Thor and Loki or Greco Roman gods or Indian gods or characters in any mythology, the reason that gods were invented was because they were basically larger versions of ourselves. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#any #basically #because #characters #gods

Well, when I was a kid and I watched 'Speed Racer,' I used to always watch it in the morning with my cereal. And when I ate the cereal, I would pour soda into the cereal because we never really had milk for some reason, I don't know. ↗

— Emile Hirsch

#ate #because #cereal #had #i

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#book #day #down #dusk #get

The threat has changed from simply worrying about foreigners coming here, to worrying about people in the United States, American citizens - raised here, born here, and who for whatever reason, have decided that they are going to become radicalized and take up arms against the nation in which they were born. ↗

— Eric Holder

#against #american #american citizens #arms #become

I perfectly understood President Obama's attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It's the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#basic #campaign #distance #each #french

I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school. ↗

— Dave Grohl

#dropped #i #liked #mean #never

Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

#command #discreet #faithful #good #good manners

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#earn #earns #even #given #happiness

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. ↗

— William Strunk, Jr.

#contain #drawing #lines #machine #paragraph

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#also #crux #entire #itself #language