Top 1200 Reason And Emotion Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Faith does not contradict reason. Faith exceeds reason.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.

[P]erfect freedom consists in obeying the dictates of right reason, and submitting to natural law. When a man goes beyond or contrary to the law of nature and reason, he . . . introduces confusion and disorder into society . . . [thus] where licentiousness begins, liberty ends.

I really believe things happen for a reason, and sometimes that reason isn't revealed until much much, much, much later.

But emotion cannot be buried by words, though it can be aroused by them.

My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is no reason to wish that they were true. Man, in so far as he is not subject to natural forces, is free to work out his own destiny. The responsibility is his, and so is the opportunity.

Although man is not armed by nature nor is naturally swiftest in flight, yet he has something better by far—reason. For by the possession of this function he exceeds the beasts to such a degree that he subdues. … You see, therefore, how much the gift of reason surpasses mere physical equipment.

Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.

There's always a ton of emotion coming from me, so I'm really excited to share it.

Somebody said that Reason was dead. Reason said: No, I think not so.

That which exercises reason is more excellent than that which does not exercise reason; there is nothing more excellent than the universe, therefore the universe exercises reason.

There is no reason why an American scholar cannot by himself or herself develop an adequate understanding of another culture. And I don't find any reason to suppose that the birth within a culture automatically confers understanding.

I realized you can be the dopest producer technically, but if the songs don't give you emotion, it doesn't matter.

I don't think of the note in technical terms. I sing the emotion that I am feeling.

She just happened to feel like it. Wasn’t that after all, the only reason there was? Had she ever had a less selfish, more complicated reason for doing anything in her life?

There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity; maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean there is always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason.

If I have got a feeling or emotion, I just express it as it comes. I am not good at filtering!

I think with the best actors, emotion is something that has no kind of check in them.

I've met so many amazing fans in the couple of weeks since the release of my second album, and everyone keeps telling me they feel so connected to the record. I think as an artist, all you really want out of your album is to feel like you're not alone.Because you wrote it for a reason. You wrote it because you're feeling some kind of emotion that you had to get out in the world. And if fans say, "that makes me feel like I'm not alone", then you get to say back to them, "Well, you telling me that makes me feel like I'm not alone either".

If you stumble over mere believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe? Reason is excellent for getting food, clothing and shelter. Reason is the very best tool kit. Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater

In her presence I could dare everything: sincerity, emotion, pathos.

Music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion.

A good fragrance is really a powerful cocktail of memories and emotion.

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting.

Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world

I have no reason to lie and every reason not to. If I do lie, I will be prosecuted.

What is a philosophy? It Is an answer satisfactory to the reason to all the great problems of life. That is what is meant by philosophy. It must satisfy the reason, and it must show the unity underlying the endless diversity of the facts that science observes.

Mysticism joins and unites; reason divides and separates. People crave belonging more than understanding. Hence the prominent role of mysticism, and the limited role of reason in human affairs.

Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion.

One reason [of Andy Griffith Show popularity] is because of the formula. It had comedy, but it also had tender moments. The other reason is because it was therapeutic. It helped people relax and unwind.

Why you need a reason for everything? Reason is something people say to make sense of things that don't make sense.

My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.

Because they know not the forces of nature, and in order that they may have comrades in their ignorance, they suffer not that others should search out anything, and would have us believe like rustics and ask no reason... But we ask in all things a reason must be sought.

It is often said that everything happens for a reason, but you must embrace the perspective that it's never a reason that is predetermined or out of your control. It is always your responsibility to choose the most empowering reasons for the occurrences of your life.

But most people don't come up to me and express a lot of emotion.

To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.

The reason to split a court is for administrative purposes, and in the past there has been much debate about the liberal decisions of the Ninth Circuit and so forth; and people have wanted to get out of the Ninth Circuit for that reason.

But there was nothing I could do with the emotion really. It just went away after a while.

I've been blessed with so many opportunities and so many amazing things throughout this process. But all the while, I remember that the reason that I'm here and the reason that I do music and tell these stories is that people come to know the love, the God that I know.

Don't hold grudges; it's pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion. .

The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other.

In anything you do, if you don't let your emotion take over you, you can make the better decisions.

Emotion combined with an artist's discipline is the rarest thing in the world.

Love and fear, the two strongest emotions we have. It all starts with emotion.

Men are like mascara, they run at the slightest display of emotion.

I no longer needed a reason for my existence, just a reason to live. And imagination, free will, love, humor, fun, music, sports, beer, and pizza are all good enough reasons for living. But living an honest life - for that you need the truth.

Sadness isn't an emotion that most cool bands want to talk about.

Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.

Don't you think that's the main reason people find [writing] so difficult? If they can write complete sentences and can use a dictionary, isn't that the only reason they find writing hard: they don't know or care about anything?

The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form.

Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.

The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice.

Human empathy, while not found on any chart of human anatomy, is the reason we instinctively hurt for our children... it is the reason that one human being's intensely personal tests and triumphs can be harnessed to the good of countless others.

The emotion to handle the pressure is one of the biggest challenges in football - it's the top challenge.

But when I start to kiss someone - lust is the easiest emotion to generate.

My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.

The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.

...those who think that faith is superior to reason, and try to reason me into thinking that way; why don't they faith me into it?

I have lived too completely. I think I have known every human emotion.