Win The Life

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

God will not suffer man to have the knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosperity he would be careless; and understanding of his adversity he would be senseless. - Saint Augustine of Hippo

Two extremes: to exclude reason, to admit reason only. - Blaise Pascal

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. - Alexander Pope

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. - Richard Dawkins

When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with. - William Shakespeare

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. - Thomas Carlyle

 

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion and desire. - Aristotle

 

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.-Baruch Spinoza

 

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.-Orson Welles

 

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.-Jacques Yves Cousteau

 

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.-Charles Baudelaire

 

All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.-Charles Baudelaire

 

Habit is stronger than reason.-George Santayana

 

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

 

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.-Agatha Christie

 

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

 

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

 

The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

 

Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.-Waylon Jennings

 

Members of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate are not there by accident. Each managed to get there for some reason. Learn what it was and you will know something important about them, about our country and about the American people.-Donald Rumsfeld

 

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.-Donald Rumsfeld

 

You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.-Stephen Fry

 

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.-Robert H. Schuller

 

What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully enjoying the show. Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy.-Dennis Miller

 

To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.-Bodhidharma

 

Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.-Bodhidharma

 

My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love.-Vivien Leigh

 

Reason in man is rather like God in the world.-Thomas Aquinas

 

Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.-Thomas Aquinas

 

Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.-Thomas Aquinas

 

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.-Thomas Aquinas

 

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.-Thomas Aquinas

 

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.-Reinhold Niebuhr

 

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.-Elbert Hubbard

 

Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.-Erich Fromm

 

In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.-Clarence Darrow

 

It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.-Samuel Beckett

 

Childhood is the sleep of reason.-Jean Jacques Rousseau

 

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.-Jean Jacques Rousseau

 

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.-Jean Jacques Rousseau

 

Every now and then you get a nice Jewish kid who likes black people and they would come in, and it would be a stream of them, and have black friends and really feel the black struggle on the acting tip and it's a reason why all of us are not dying in the movie.-Mike Epps

 

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.-Mike Epps

 

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.-Honore de Balzac

 

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.-Honore de Balzac

 

Do you have to have a reason for loving?-Brigitte Bardot

 

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.-Jerry Seinfeld

 

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.-Martin Heidegger

 

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.-Charles Darwin

 

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.-Epicurus

 

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.-Gilbert K. Chesterton

 

Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.-Alfred Lord Tennyson

 

I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others. There's something about it that you like. Ultimately I don't find it's in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it's fundamentally emotional.-Jerry Garcia

 

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

 

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'-Dave Barry

 

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.-James Joyce

 

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.-Amelia Earhart

 

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.-Edmund Burke

 

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.-Alexander Pope

 

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.-Alexander Pope

 

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.-Ambrose Bierce

 

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.-Andrew Carnegie

 

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.-Jim Carrey

 

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.-Bertrand Russell

 

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.-Bertrand Russell

 

Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.-Ingrid Bergman

 

That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.-Lewis Carroll

 

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.-Josh Billings

 

Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.-Nicola Abbagnano

 

It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live.-Johnny Depp

 

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.-Samuel Johnson

 

Maria is the best reason to come home.-Arnold Schwarzenegger

 

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.-Rainer Maria Rilke

 

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.-Lord Byron

 

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.-Lord Byron

 

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.-James Madison

 

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.-James Madison

 

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.-James Madison

 

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.-James Madison

 

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.-Immanuel Kant

 

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.-Immanuel Kant

 

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?-Immanuel Kant

 

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.-Immanuel Kant

 

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.-Immanuel Kant

 

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.-Marcus Tullius Cicero

 

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.-Marcus Tullius Cicero

 

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.-Marcus Tullius Cicero

 

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.-William James