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There will be great winds by reason of which things of the East will become things of the West; and those of the South, being involved in the course of the winds, will follow them to distant lands.

— Leonardo da Vinci reason

We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.

— Pablo Picasso reason

Whether you are a Christian, or a Muslim, or a Nationalist, we all have the same problem. They don’t hang you because you’re a Baptist; they hang you ‘cause you’re black. They don’t attack me because I’m a Muslim; they attack me ‘cause I’m black. They attack all of us for the same reason -- all of us catch hell from the same enemy. We’re all in the same bag, in the same boat. We suffer political oppression, economic exploitation, and social degradation all of them from the same enemy.

— Malcolm X reason

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality. That is why you write and for no other reason that you know of. But what about all the reasons that no one knows?

— Ernest Hemingway reason

My adversaries… applied the one means that wins the easiest victory over reason: terror and force.

— adolf hitler reason

Or have we eaten on the insane root That takes the reason prisoner?

— Macbeth reason

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

— Woody Allen reason

We are, like Nebuchadnezzar, dethroned, bereft of reason, and eating grass like an ox.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson reason

Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

— Mark Twain reason

Under these circumstances, except for any personal humiliation involved in admitting that I do not always understand the opinions of this Court, I see no reason why I should be consciously wrong today because I was unconsciously wrong yesterday.

— Robert H. Jackson reason

The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.

— Adlai Stevenson reason

I don’t want to be an alarmist, but I think that the Younger Generation is up to something.... I base my apprehension on nothing more definite than the fact that they are always coming in and going out of the house, without any apparent reason.

— Robert Benchley reason

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

— Theodore Roosevelt reason

We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the rightinstead of doing all the right things for all thereasons.

— Buckminster Fuller reason

Once you get it into your head that somebody is controlling events, you can interpret everything in thatand find no reasonableanywhere.

— Isaac Asimov reason

We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed.

— Friedrich Nietzsche reason

The main reason there are no raw devices [in Linux] is that I personally think that raw devices are a stupid idea.

— Linus Torvalds reason

A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause.

— Miguel Cervantes reason

The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.

— T. S. Eliot reason

612. At the end of reasons comes persuasion.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein reason

A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.

— John Milton reason

Wit may do very well for a mistress, but [I] should prefer reason for a wife.

— Charles Caleb Colton reason

There is something in Poetry beyond Prose-reason; there are Mysteries in it not to be explained, but admired.

— Edward Young reason

And surely one of the bestinis, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid…

— Jonathan Swift reason

What though no real voice nor sound Amid their radiant orbs be found ; In reason's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice, Forever singing as they shine, "The Hand that made us divine."

— Joseph Addison reason

To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.

— Epictetus reason

Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.

— Marcus Aurelius reason

Voltaire's Bastards : The Dictatorship of Reason in the West (1992)

— John Ralston Saul reason

India lives in her villages, we are told in every other sanctimonious public speech, That's bullshit. India doesn't live in her villages. India dies in her villages. India gets kicked around in her villages. India lives in her cities. India's villages just live only to serve her cities. Her villages are her citizen's vassals and for that reason must be controlled and kept alive, but only just.

— Arundhati Roy reason

Cuba became the sugar-producing and-exporting country par excellence; and if she did not develop even further in this respect, the reason is to be found in the capitalist contradictions which put a limit to a continuous expansion of the Cuban sugar industry, which depended almost entirely on North American capital.

— Che Guevara reason

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

— George Santayana reason

Absolute relativism, which is neither more nor less than skepticism, in the most modern sense of the term, is the supreme triumph of the reasoning reason.

— Miguel de Unamuno reason

If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.

— Larry Wall reason

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

— NiccolІ Machiavelli reason

It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.

— W. Somerset Maugham reason

Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances.

— Blaise Pascal reason

Only optimists commit suicide, the optimists who can no longer be...optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why should they have any to die?

— Emil Cioran reason

God's merits are so transcendent that it is not surprising his faults should be in reasonable proportion.

— Samuel Butler (novelist) reason

Why is this thus? What is the reason of this thusness?

— Artemus Ward reason

Affection is blind reason.

— James Howell reason

"Love the Arabs for three reasons because (1) I am an Arab (2) the Holy Koran is in Arabic and (3) the tongue of the dwellers of paradise shall also be Arabic.

— Muhammad reason

I'm trying to think of all the reasons that are appropriate for me to refuse to answer that question.

— John Ashcroft reason

I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can have no properties. It might as well be said that God has properties. He has not, but only attributes and these are of our own making. Of properties we can only speak when dealing with matter filling the space. To say that in the presence of large bodies space becomes curved is equivalent to stating that something can act upon nothing. I, for one, refuse to subscribe to such a view.

— Nikola Tesla reason

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn reason

"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable," was his mildly cadaverous reply.

— Herman Melville reason

“Peewee!” I said sharply. “You're not listening.” “What were you doing talking,” she answered reasonably, “when I wasn’t listening?”

— Robert Heinlein reason

It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.

— Reinhold Niebuhr reason

We are at the veryoffor therace. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with . But there are tens of thousands of years in the . Ouris to do what we can,what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

— Richard Feynman reason

Spinoza saw... that if a falling stone could reason, it would think, "I want to fall at the rate of thirty-two feet per second."

— Philip K. Dick reason

But if someone has a gun and is trying to kill you... it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.

— Guns reason

For some reason, we know not what, his childhood was sharply severed. It lodged in him whole and entire. He could not disperse it.

— Virginia Woolf reason

Lrrr: Attention McNeil. We are reasonably satisfied with the events we have seen. Overall I would rate it a C+. Okay, not great. As a result we will not destroy your planet. But neither will we provide you with our recipe for immortality! Fry: Way to overact, Zoidberg!

— Futurama reason

Whenbecomes aits adherents are without number, and it masquerades as forbearance, reasonableness and whatnot.

— Eric Hoffer reason

It were Happy if we studied Nature more in natural Things; and acted according to Nature; whose rules are few, plain and most reasonable. (9)

— William Penn reason

There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.

— Sherlock Holmes reason

Everything Happens For a Reason

— Ellen DeGeneres reason

If no one has told you who or whatis, there must be a . And before I know what that reason is, I can't decide whether someone who hasn't seen her with his own eyes has ato .

— The Neverending Story reason

Civilization began around wetlands; today's civilization has every reason to leave them wet and wild.

— Conservation reason

Revised version of A Planet Called Treason (1978)

— Orson Scott Card reason

Immediate luminousness, in short, philosophical reasonableness and moral helpfulness are the only available criteria.might have had the nervous system of the placidest cow, and it would not now save her theology, if the trial of the theology by these other tests should show it to be contemptible. And conversely if her theology can stand these other tests, it will make no difference how hysterical or nervously off balance Saint Teresa may have been when she was with us here below.

— William James reason

Facts have to be discovered by observation, not by reasoning - Bertrand Russell (1945)

— Fact reason

The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.

— Peter Ustinov reason

We must not understand it [madness] as reason diseased, or as reason lost or alienated, but quite simply as reason dazzled.

— Michel Foucault reason

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it…

— William Hazlitt reason

There are few things more exciting to me, in short, than a psychological reason.

— Henry James reason

I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason; I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

— Lincoln reason

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.

— Douglas Adams reason

The only reason I'm coming out here tomorrow is the schedule says I have to.

— Sparky Anderson reason

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

— Jack Henry Abbott reason

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

— Lyman Abbott reason

It's always weird when you see a movie, and there's no reason for someone to, like, jump on stage and be a singer, and then they just do that... But if it came organically, I would grab that mike and jump on stage for sure.

— Candice Accola reason

There were days that I literally had no reason to get out of bed. It just was so destructive for me.

— Joey Lauren Adams reason

Faith is a continuation of reason.

— William Adams reason

We are all put in different positions for different reasons.

— Kim Alexis reason

A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.

— William R. Alger reason

I think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.

— Samuel Alito reason

As far as pacing the shoot is concerned, I know when I've got it. I don't think there's any reason to take ten takes unless you need them.

— Debbie Allen reason

Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason.

— Ethan Allen reason

A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are a lot of reasons for Atlanta being a special town in the Civil Rights era.

— Ivan Allen reason

I think all of those things, but certainly the booze really brought out the really unreasonable side of me, and I just didn't want to revisit that place again.

— Rick Allen reason

The reason I went for Jenny Craig is I thought, Maybe I'm not the only one who has stupid reasons for getting fat.

— Kirstie Alley reason

I got the nickname Spitfire for a reason - I burned inside to play volleyball.

— Summer Altice reason

People have their cultural reasons for eating meat, their traditional reasons, their likes and dislikes.

— Suzy Amis reason

No, really. Just do it. You have some kind of weird reasons that are okay.

— Paul Thomas Anderson reason

Do you need to train two hours a day? Probably not. The reason why my celebrity clients have to train two hours a day is because their endurance level is so strong. For Madonna to get results and keep results, it's like a professional athlete training - she has to push harder.

— Tracy Anderson reason

I don't cheer for anyone because my job is obviously more important, but the reason why I got into sports is because of my father. He's a giant sports fan and we are from New England, so he cheered for the Celtics and the Red Sox.

— Erin Andrews reason

I would never play any role in anything that involves the United Nations for obvious reasons.

— Kojo Annan reason

One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.

— Piers Anthony reason

I have 40 years of unpublished material, the ones they don't pick, and the reason I don't redraw them or use them again is that I like to use my brain every day and come up with new jokes.

— Sergio Aragones reason

I've been a scuba diver since I was 16 and I think that was one of the reasons they chose me.

— Christopher Atkins reason

I really do the conventions now for two reasons.

— Rene Auberjonois reason

The reason why Botswana has done very well is because it's the only black African country which went back to its roots and built upon its own indigenous institutions.

— George Ayittey reason

The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.

— Erma Bombeck reason

Critics have a job to do. They do not criticise you without reason.

— Abhishek Bachchan reason

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

— Francis Bacon reason

Basically if you burst into my office the walls themselves will flutter as if alive - maybe that's the reason for all the wings in 'Pure.'

— Julianna Baggott reason

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

— H. C. Bailey reason

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