The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected.
The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.
Those weeks before diagnosis can be among the most torturous times. There is a reason you're called a patient once the plastic bracelet goes on.
The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have to stop waste, and if you travel for no reason whatsoever, that is a waste.
To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze.
In a much larger sense, the problem of Sabah is directly influenced by the duplicity of imperial Britain. For whatever devious reason, the dismantling of the British empire created divisions and violence due to ethnic and religious differences.
The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
There is no reason whatsoever to think that Buddhism can compete successfully with the relentless evangelizing of Christianity and Islam. Nor should it try to.
The fight takes 15 minutes. The build-up takes 90 days. It takes that for a reason.
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
That's one of the reason T-Bone Burnett calls me... he thinks I'm used to doing what I do in the studio for him.
Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.
The reason the United States is not so likely to invade Iran is precisely because of the lessons learned from Iraq. And conversely, the Iranian push towards nuclear capability is calculated to deter invasions like the kind deposing Saddam Husain.
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.
