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So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do. Benjamin Franklin

Mind Every Find Since Make Enables Convenient Reason Reasonable Creature Thing

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason. Blaise Pascal

God Faith Heart Perceived Which Reason

For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than themselves. That feeling of awe, of going to a cathedral, it's all about feeling lost in something bigger than oneself. To me, that's the definition of spectacle. Diane Paulus

Me People Feeling Edge Ocean Lost Definition About Oneself Something Look Cathedral Go Than Mountaintop Going Bigger Themselves Reason Why Larger Awe Spectacle

I believe that the future of humanity is in the progress of reason through science. I believe that the pursuit of truth, through science, is the divine ideal which man should propose to himself. Emile Zola

Truth Future Man Science Humanity Progress Believe Through Pursuit Divine Propose Ideal Himself Which Should Reason

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

Seriously Ought Consider Those Argue Without Whether Against Reason Who

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

Strength Will Thought Marshal Armor Fort Fortitude Reason

Faith is reason plus revelation, and the revelation part requires one to think with the spirit as well as with the mind. You have to hear the music, not just read the notes on the page. Francis Collins

Music Faith You Mind Think Plus Spirit Part Well Read Revelation Hear Just Notes Page Requires Reason

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail. Francis Quarles

The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course. Freddie Mercury

Charisma Darling Overall Course Successful Reason

Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product. Friedrich August von Hayek

Our Moral Developed Traditions Product Reason

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. Friedrich Nietzsche

Blame Power Judgment Our Later More Only Over Underestimated Praise Praised Causes Undeserved Than Being Reason Exposed Conscience

I've always heard that the reason you fall is to get back up and keep going. So when that happens, or life throws you bad breaks or curves or deals you the wrong hand, all I've ever known is to keep going. Gary Rossington

The reason that you dance and sing is to make the audience feel like they're dancing and singing. As long as you're having fun with it and giving it 100 percent, they're gonna feel that. Heath Ledger

You Dance Long Giving Singing Dancing Percent Having Having Fun Feel Like Sing Make Audience Gonna Reason Fun

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

Good Good And Evil Evil Those Latter Object Objects Only Also Practical Principle According Former Meant Reason Therefore Shunned Necessarily Desired

We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and they're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient. Jeff Bezos

Be Patient Three Invent First Big Patient Stuck Had Put Ideas Years Amazon Big Ideas Customer Successful Reason

The question is not, 'Can they reason?' nor, 'Can they talk?' but rather, 'Can they suffer?' Jeremy Bentham

Rather Talk Nor Question Reason Suffer

I hate the hand that comes out of a car and just drops litter in the street. I hate that! For some reason, it just fills me with fury! It's just utter laziness, lack of interest in other people, lack of interest in the planet, in the hedgehog who might eat the plastic bag, it's a lack of concern. Joanna Lumley

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Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness. John Calvin

I don't mind snobs, if they have a reason to be a snob. John Waters

Mind Snob Reason

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason. Jon Meacham

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