I call him free who is led solely by reason.
It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
When demagogues and dictators ban art, this is the reason: art is the great solvent of obedient fundamentalism.
I'm certainly afraid of not being able to write for some reason. I guess I've had spells of not necessarily writer's block, but something like that. I find that pretty terrifying.
I got the nickname Spitfire for a reason - I burned inside to play volleyball.
The reason that you have statutes of limitations is because evidence goes stale sometimes.
For some reason, I skipped the original 'Star Wars.' I don't know why, and I'm very embarrassed.
Some rules are there for a reason - but it's one thing to have a rule that protects and another to have rules that stifle.
If there isn't a deep core reason for a film existing, what is the point? For me to be known as a filmmaker that makes films that have a point, I'm stoked.
One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.
Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert.
Sunken gardens should be laid out under the supervision of an intelligent landscape architect; and even then should have a reason for being sunken other than a whim or increase in costliness.
Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
One of my favorite books is 'The Swiss Family Robinson.' The reason is, I'm fascinated by the postapocalyptic recovery. What do we do in a disaster? How do we make do?
Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.
The tax relief package enacted in 2001 was central to pulling the economy out of the post 9-11 recession. It's the reason we've got low unemployment and have created more than two million jobs in the last year.
The only reason to do a television series is to make it successful. And if it is successful, that's a six or seven year commitment.
If we had zero corporate tax in this country, tens of millions of jobs would get created in this country for no other reason.
The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.
