A Quote by James Cook
There is a reason and not a reason for everything.
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There are two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason. The supreme achievement of reason is to realise that there is a limit to reason. Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it. It is merely feeble if it does not go as far as to realise that.
If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.
The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.
The reason I'm here today, the reason I own a brand new Harley-Davidson motorcycle and the reason I have a big log cabin and I got cars and all kinds of stuff is because I'm a writer and writers own everything. So you learn how to write.
We don't have faith in reason; we use reason because, unlike revelation, it produces results and understanding. Even discussing why we should use reason employs reason!
What is virtue? reason put into practice: -talent? reason expressed with brilliance: -soul? reason delicately put forth; and genius is sublime reason.
The artist uses his reason to discover an answering reason in everything he sees.
Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.
There is a just Latin axiom, that he who seeks a reason for everything subverts reason.
Everyone moves for reason. You need a reason to leave everything behind.
I do believe that everything happens for a reason. We're not on Earth by accident. Things don't happen in your life for no reason.
What I believe when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason - and it's not to fail and die.
My motto in life has always been 'Everything happens for a reason.' No matter what, good or bad, there is a reason for it all.
I believe that everything happens for a reason, but I think it's important to seek out that reason - that's how we learn.
I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.
In the end the reason for anything is inseparable from the reason for everything.
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