“Man is endowed with reason and the power to create, so that he may increase that which has been given him, but… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
When one turns from reason to faith, when one rejects the absolutism of reality, one undercuts the absolutism of one's consciousness -… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
One reason that we have collectively plugged our ears against a decade of dismal revelations about Bill Cosby is that he made… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Besides, all my New York friends were in the negative, nightmare position of putting down society and giving their tired bookish or… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The whole reason for the success of Dr. King's civil-rights movement was that it was not a movement for itself. The civil-rights… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides,and, while… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The reason I'm travelling so much is because of reasons that weren't completely planned. Several of the shows became successful and were… — Matthew Bourne Copy Share Image
No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population,… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate abstract ideas verbally and in writing, and to form ethical… — Peter Cheeke Copy Share Image
These stupid peasants, who, throughout the world, hold potentates on their thrones, make statesmen illustrious, provide generals with lasting victories, all with… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
I don't generate a storyline and then fill it out in the course of writing. The story actually generates in the course… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Listen- all that she was then, all that she is now, those gestures, everything I remember but won't or can't articulate anymore,… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
If you and I are not having a dialogue, when you're having an argument, the reason the argument happen is because we… — Subir Chowdhury Copy Share Image
I don’t believe rape is inevitable or natural. If I did, I would have no reason to be here. If I did,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
We have more poets than judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Now I do not myself share that superstitious reverence for the beliefs of common sense which many contemporary philosophers profess. But I… — C. D. Broad Copy Share Image
I didn't leave Africa, I left Nigeria, and for political reasons. But ... I've never, never left Africa, and I certainly never… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Creativity can never be explained by appeal to reason alone. Like the birth of a child, creativity compels us not to explanation… — George Vaillant Copy Share Image
I was so ordinary, critics couldn't understand it, but looking back, that was the reason for my success. What you see is… — Cilla Black Copy Share Image
I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but other diabetics do… — Dana Hill Copy Share Image
White Zombie was a bunch of kids with the worst equipment playing in a basement. But that is what is so great… — Rob Zombie Copy Share Image
One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
So it comes to this; one doesn’t need rest. Why bother about sleep if one isn’t sleepy? That stands to reason, doesn’t… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
A corporation is a state created institution, state supported institution, its concentration of private power, there is no reason why it should… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Golf is recognized as one of the more difficult games to play or teach. One reason for this is that each person… — Bobby Jones Copy Share Image
Someone asked me recently, "Do you get sick of people asking you about your hair?" And the reason I don't is because… — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping-houses, and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
That rule must be absolutely observed which states that, except for the most serious reasons and with the Apostolic See, no innovations… — Pope Gregory XVI Copy Share Image
The reason that people do not have a rich, beautiful faith is that their spirit is denied the privilege of communion and… — John G. Lake Copy Share Image
“If it be true that there can be no metaphysics transcending human reason, it is no less true that there can be… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
The reason why there is now no communist government in Paris is because in the circumstances of 1945 the Soviet army was… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
The Cold War's end pushed disarmament down most leaders' agendas. It's a sophisticated issue, which I think is one reason why it… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
It is very hard not to see extensive and basic similarities between these (Pagan) religions and the Christian Religion. But somehow Christian… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
“Animals never have recourse to law courts, because they have no will to love; but man, having reason, feels the need of… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
When you look at the basis for the immortality of the soul, you have these foundationless speculations and really, no intelligent reason… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
I don't know if I'll ever feel like I've made it. That is part of the reason why all of us, as… — Cassadee Pope Copy Share Image
If you weren't around, I'd probably be someplace way the hell off. In the woods or some goddamn place. You're the only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As scientists, we track down all promising leads, and there's reason to suspect that our universe may be one of many -… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image