#reason

It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last. ↗

— Charles Sanders Peirce

#dismiss #envy #how #impossible #know

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it. ↗

— William Penn

#christianity #hardest #learn #lesson #love

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason. ↗

— William Penn

#his #man #mob #passion #reason

As an actor, you may do things that aren't politically correct. Unless you're an actor who only does things for political reasons. I believe if we don't do the good, bad, and the ugly, we're not going to progress. ↗

— Rosie Perez

#bad #believe #correct #does #going

The reason that the unions and the other stakeholders have not cut a deal with the automakers is because they believe the federal government is going to bail them out. ↗

— Tim Pawlenty

#because #believe #cut #deal #federal

The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals. ↗

— James Thurber

#demonstrable #dog #fun #got #laughable

The majority of people who join law enforcement are doing it for good, moral reasons, but then there are the few who get through, where you go, 'Whoa, hold on a second. What's this guy doing here?' ↗

— Guy Pearce

#enforcement #few #get #go #good

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense. ↗

— William Penn

#grows #love #lust #other #reason

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world. ↗

— William Penn

#extinguishes #many #mind #much #natural

Most people who came here came for economic reasons or sometimes for religious or political reasons. I didn't have any of this. I came here, I liked it, I stayed. So I'm a pure American - even more than people who are born here - because I did it by choice as an adult. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#american #any #because #born #came