#reason

Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate. ↗

— Leonhard Euler

#day #discover #human #human mind #into

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling. ↗

— Bill Evans

#because #bugs #children #explain #feeling

Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work. ↗

— Faith Evans

#god #his #nor #reason #sense

Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day. ↗

— Evelyn Underhill

#bit #day #every #every day #quiet

It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other. ↗

— Oliver Evans

#any #communication #each #frequently #happens

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts. ↗

— Walker Evans

#eye #feelings #joyous #photographer #reason

Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me. ↗

— Rupert Everett

#always #authority #authority figures #because #figures

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#cannot #enables #get #ideas #our

So I'm in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else. ↗

— Charles Evers

#blacks #democratic #democratic party #else #everyone

In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure. ↗

— Hans Eysenck

#classed #fails #failure #finish #his