Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
There's a reason that students don't grade their own papers. There's a reason defendants don't sentence themselves. And there's the reason the State Department doesn't get to investigate itself, determine whether or not it made errors in Benghazi. That is Congress's job.
'Man and Superman,' first performed in 1905, is by common consent one of George Bernard Shaw's greatest and most significant plays, yet hardly anybody performs it today, for the understandable reason that an uncut performance runs for about five hours.
The reason I became a better player was because I came to Philly.
The novels that have fascinated me most are the ones that have reached me less through the channels of the intellect or reason than bewitched me.
When I put a bicycle wheel on a stool, the fork down, there was no idea of a 'ready-made' or anything else. It was just a distraction. I didn't have any special reason to do it, or any intention of showing it or describing anything.
There is no reason that billionaires should crowd us out from our democracy.
Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.
Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
A form of reason that in some way wished to strip itself of beauty would be diminished; it would be a blinded reason.
The reason con artists get away with what they get away with is, their victims are ashamed of their own blindness and their own gullibility, and they tend to just quietly go away.
Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure.
The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I should spend as much time on a blogger with a million-person readership as I would pitching an editor of a publication with a million person subscription-base.
Staph lives on skin. That's the reason why many infections start as a boil.
There's a reason why, when Reagan became president, he started getting rid of regulations, and we had a booming economy.
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
The real reason why general relativity is widely accepted is because it made predictions that were borne out by experimental observations.
Every player goes through streaks where they're just not making their shots. It may last two games, it may last ten games, and a lot of times, it's something off the court that is bothering you, or coach might cut your minutes for some unknown reason.
It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
