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Thus human beings judge of one another, superficially, casually, throwing contempt on one another, with but little reason, and no charity. — Emmuska Orczy

If I was an exceptional human being in Detroit, then I saw no reason why I couldn't be an exceptional human being in Mississippi. In Hattiesburg. — Victoria Gray Adams

Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom. — John Quincy Adams

The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven. — Isaac Barrow

There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable. — Sam Harris

The poor (horse) had sure got a reason to be mean, and I guess he's at the point where he figgers no human is his friend any more. — Will James

Why wouldn't I help? What good reason do I have as a human being with power and a sense of empathy and morality, why wouldn't I do something? — John Legend

everything human is human because it is brought about through thinking, and for that reason alone."5 — Michael Allen Fox

Fashion has a reason to be, because in fashion you can find new kinds of expression about human beings. It's my way to communicate. — Ann Demeulemeester

For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all. — Leo Tolstoy

Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice. — David Mitchell

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing. — Claude Levi-Strauss

The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death. — Austin O'Malley

Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment. — Khalil Gibran

The comic strip is what I looked at, and it's another reason I did it. The comic strip, where animals would comment on human behaviour, interested me. — Garry Shandling

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. — Noam Chomsky

The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must change a monkey into a man. — Louis Agassiz

Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn't work out too well. — Thomas Keating

The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it. — Blaise Pascal

It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage — W. Somerset Maugham

Promoting the human capacity to reason and make decisions: that is the purpose of whistle-blowing, of activism, of political journalism. — Glenn Greenwald

Habituation is indeed a fact of human psychology. That's one reason we like novelty, including different cuts of jeans. — Virginia Postrel

India is there to unite all human races. Because of that reason in India we have not been given the unity of races. — Rabindranath Tagore

With grief, you have reason to despair; it's a human thing. — Kay Redfield Jamison

Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future. — Maria Montessori

It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere. — C.S. Lewis

I am convinced that the reason why my kids have become very fulfilled and achieving human beings is because I wasn't raising them alone. — Gioconda Belli

I have learned to be less confident in the conclusions of human reason, and give more credit to the honesty of contrary opinions. — Thomas Jefferson

They talk about who won and who lost. Human reason won. Mankind won. — Nikita Khrushchev

Is there a reason you look like you want to murder me?"
"Not particularly. You have that effect on people. — Martina Boone

Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors. — Charles Webster Hawthorne

The reason that history so often repeats is not only human nature, but also human ignorance. — Glenn Beck

I think the reason vampire movies have been so popular over time is that they share so many parallels with human beings. — Alexandra Cassavetes

Hegel said that 'truth' is subjective, thus rejecting the existence of any 'truth' above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human knowledge. — Jostein Gaarder

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other — Martin Luther

That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. — George Boole

If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human. — Maggie Stiefvater

Reason is not the same in all men; human beings belong to a variety of psychological types separated one from another by irreducible differences. — Aldous Huxley

I repeat: there was no attraction for me in imitating human beings; I imitated them because I needed a way out, and for no other reason. — Franz Kafka

The foremost reason that happiness is so hard to achieve is that the universe was not designed with the comfort of human beings in mind. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Of all the things that human beings did together, the sexual act was the one with the most various of reasons. — P.D. James

Human nature...is more powerfully acted on through imagination and sentiments than through intellect and reason. — Christine Kinealy

It's just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we're in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it. — Joyce Meyer

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies. — Johann Georg Hamann

Human reason grows rich by self-conquest. — Publilius Syrus

Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world. — Isaac Watts

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers. — Wilfrid Sheed

For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

My thoughts about human happiness, for some peculiar reason, had always been tinged with a certain sadness. — Anton Chekhov

Reason is the most active human faculty. — Mary Baker Eddy

The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness. — Heinrich Mann

You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

No conclusion can be more agreable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limites of human reason and capacity — David Hume

Every human being has the right to ask the reason, why, and to have his question answered by himself, if he only takes the trouble. — Swami Vivekananda

If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers. — Christina Stead

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. — William Blake

In all human affairs, the wisest course is to be passionate about the role of reason and reasonable about the role of passion. — Mardy Grothe

We may never understand what leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings. Such violence, such evil is senseless. It's beyond reason. — Barack Obama

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate. — Thomas Mann

Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature. — Vladimir Lenin

The reason you want to act is to continue to explore every different part of the human psyche. — Jesse Plemons

Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason. — Erich Fromm

Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind-a part of reason itself. The insane alone are without it. — Eden Phillpotts

Every form of life is in its origin not natural, but divine and human; for it must spring from love, just as there can be no reason without spirit. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Human beings do things for a reason, even if sometimes it's the wrong reason. — Tom Hanks

To prove religious faith by human reason is rationalistic claptrap. — Jostein Gaarder

Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason. — Aristotle.

Human lifespan used to be 30 years, 25 years. But there's no basic, fundamental reason why it has to be short. — Craig Venter

Essentially, the frequentist approach toward statistics seeks to wash its hands of the reason that predictions most often go wrong: human error. — Nate Silver

There is no opposing brutal force to the stratagems of human reason. — Roger L'Estrange

Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not my purpose and reason for living. — Vanna Bonta

So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason - to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences? — Christina Baker Kline

The thought of immortality is as well founded as any other well authenticated postulate of the human reason. — John Haynes Holmes

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth. — Pope John Paul II

As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy, — Viktor E. Frankl

The capabilities of the human mind are enormous. There is usually no inherent reason you cannot accomplish whatever goal you set for yourself. — Michael J. McCarthy

To my mind, there is a reason that music is there and it's about being human. — Kim Deal

I am aware that true miracles, things unexplained by human reason, can only occur when Jesus does them. — Gail Davis

Unshakable faith is only that which can face reason in all human epochs. — Allan Kardec

A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice. — Ferdinand Buisson

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts. — John Chrysostom

We are fallen fools, most of our philosophy is not "the proper use of human reason" but the improper use of human reason. — Peter Kreeft

... insanity is never reasonable. — E.A. Bucchianeri

There is a resiliency in the human spirit that keeps us going even when we have no reason to continue. — Edward T. Welch

Human reason is a pin dancing on the head of an angel, so small is it in comparison to the Divine vastness that encircles us. — Margaret Atwood

Idiot people like Angel Delaporte who look for a supernatural reason for ordinary events, those people drive Misty nuts. — Chuck Palahniuk

Embrace truth as it is revealed to-day by human reason. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Human reason has the peculiar fate ... that it is burdened with questions that it cannot dismiss ... but which it also cannot answer. — Immanuel Kant

Can reason be an idol? Certainly. The philosophy of rationalism puts human reason in the place of God as the source and standard of all truth. — Nancy Pearcey

Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part. — Edmund Burke

Modernity gone wrong has isolated humanity and made human reason autonomous of (and dismissive toward) revelation. — John Mark Reynolds

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being. — Milan Kundera

Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it. — Veronica Roth

Winter and Summer
While it's summer people say
Winter is the better season.
Such is human reason.
Kamijima Onitsura — Reiko Chiba

Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism
and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency. — Stephen Jay Gould

There is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all. — Saint John Chrysostom

Ants, like human beings, can create civilizations without the use of reason. — Abbott Lawrence Lowell

I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must for that very reason infallibly be faulty. — Herman Melville