Reason Quotes - Page 119

Venture capital is about .02% of the U.S. economy invested, and it accounts for 11% of total U.S. jobs and 21% of U.S. economic output. And the reason why is because these companies can get very big, very quickly.

Don't reason in the mind just obey in the spirit.

One of the reasons that Donald Trump cannot properly respond to what was an obvious proper response from an America president is the people in his government.

I've always thought things were absurd. It would take a lot more effort for me to see things as reasonable.

If animals had reason, they would act just as ridiculous as we menfolks do.

The war in Iraq has been very, very expensive - partly because the Administration tried to keep the apparent costs down. But the benefits have been elusive at best - partly because the ostensible reasons for going war were unconnected with reality - no weapons of mass destruction, no connections with 9/11.

If, it was natural to reason, God punishes men with eternal torment, it is surely lawful for men to use doses of it in a good cause.

The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.

What is virtue? Reason in practice.

Our obligation to the will of God is our obligation to the laws of practical reason.

It must be so, Plato, thou reason'st well!

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is, and if the book has any kind of message, I suppose that's it.

What is reasoned has nothing to do with what is reasonable.

God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.

Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.

[...]It is as if after surviving so much, there was no longer reason to survive.

I like irrational things. I like scenarios where I can think, 'It would be great if at this point we could do x.' And there doesn't have to be a reason for 'x'.

But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons.

The reason it's hard for me to tweet is I don't want to pronounce anything, and Twitter is for pronouncing.

Knowledge can be a subtle curse. When we learn about the world, we also learn all the reasons why the world cannot be changed. We get used to our failures and imperfections. We become numb to the possibilities of something new

I have always seen the Clinton Foundation - yes, they do a lot of charitable good works. But by my lights, the charitable good works were a cost center like the electric bill. The reason why the foundation exists wasn't to do good work. It was to serve as sort of a place to park lugubrious sycophants like Sidney Blumenthal and other henchman, a place to serve as a super PAC, a place park her campaign while they were a government in exile

I'm not competing in Iowa for a reason.

This life is for us to discover the divine within. And that's really the key to life in many ways for me. And the thing is, it's not for us to reason why everything is what it is... just do it.

There's only one reason we live. It's very simple. To find the creator. That's just my understanding.

Writing a book about yourself is like therapy, and you go 'Oh My God, that's the reason that happened.' Writing about it, you're forced to really examine things.