#reason

When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all. ↗

— Mark Van Doren

#because #conceal #exist #express #fail

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#existence #go #lose #mad #meaningful

There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs - they are weak men. Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves. ↗

— Martin H. Fischer

#become #cure #cured #men #only

When I was eight years old, I got a dummy for Christmas and started teaching myself. I got books and records and sat in front of the bathroom mirror, practising. I did my first show in the third grade and just kept going; there was no reason to quit. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#books #christmas #did #dummy #eight

There's a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary. ↗

— Trevor Dunn

#i #list #listed #moved #musicians

They're there because, for some reason, they have the notion that they're supposed to be there. ↗

— Santiago Durango

#notion #reason #some #supposed

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#every #influence #over #pure #reason

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#i think #more #most #people #prejudice

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#because #goes #hard #hard work #like

Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#constantly #frenzy #our #passion #principals