#reason

I’d imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured, if the entire world was one big machine, I couldn’t be an extra part. I had to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too. ↗

— Hugo Cabret

#machinery #machines #man #reasons #imagination

I thought that to get to know a desert it was enough to have been there. I thought that to have seen the dogs dying along the Cholula road, or to have seen the eyes of the lepers at Chiengmai gave me the right to talk about it. To have seen! To have been there! Rubbish! The world is not a book, it proves nothing. The spaces one has crossed were dark corridors with closed doors. The faces of the women to whom one gave oneself up completely: did they speak for anyone but themselves? The cities of man are secret. One walks along their streets, one sees them shine under one's feet, but one is not there, one never enters them. The dusty fields inhabited by people who are hungry, who wait patiently, are paradises of luxury and nourishment; shining at a vast distance from intelligence, at a vast distance from reason. They are not to be subjugated. ↗

— J.M.G. Le Clézio

#knowledge #perception #reason #world #intelligence

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. ↗

— Mark Twain

#born #day #important #life #reasons-why

The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#love #men-and-women #reasons #life

I knew in that moment, I would never love anyone in my life the way I loved Evan Mathews. ↗

— Rebecca Donovan

#emma-thomas #evan-mathews #love #reason-to-breathe #rebecca-donovan

Surviving is one thing," he said quietly, his voice suddenly calmer, "but you've got to have a reason to do it. There's no point in living if you don't have anything worth living for. ↗

— David Moody

#living #reason #survival #life

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life. (Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935) ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#artists #falsification #gain #greed #honesty

The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I don’t know anything like enough yet; that I haven’t understood enough; that I can’t know enough; that I’m always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom. I wouldn’t have it any other way. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#knowledge #life #progress #reason #faith

Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#choices #horses #life #reasons #life

He is not apprehended by reason, but by life. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#life #reason #life