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"But, indeed, words are very rascals, since bonds [vows] disgraced them." Viola: "Thy reason, man?" Feste: "Troth [Truthfully], sir, I can yield you none without words, and words are grown so false, I am loathe to prove reason with them."
"Words are grown so false, I am loath to prove reason with them."
"Atlee is a very modest man. And with reason."
"Music says nothing to the reason: it is a kind of closely structured nonsense."
"When one chooses to be a writer, psychologically there's a reason for that because you like the isolation and you like to be by yourself and you are by nature timid."
"Without the constantly living and articulated eperience of absurdity, there would be no reason to attempt to do something meaningful. And on the contrary, how can one experience one's own absurdity if one is not constantly seeking meaning?"
"The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity."
"I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story."
"The old knowledge had been difficult but not distressing. It had been all paradox and myth, and it had made sense. The new knowledge was all fact and reason, and it made no sense."
"You're filled with so much life. Is there any reason why all of us are not full of life?"
"If I just keep putting one foot in front of the other, it stands to reason that I'm going to get there. I've begun to think we sit far more than we're supposed to." He smiled. "Why else would we have feet?"
"The only reason I haven't shot you yet is because he's the one who should get to do it," I say. "Stay away from him or I'll decide I no longer care."
"There is a reason you don’t know all the things I know. -Marcus Eaton"
"Talk to the man with the reasons why."
"For some reason, I'm really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs."
"All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into."
"The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes."
"For unknown reasons, there is a tremendous concentration of psychoactive plants on the South American continent. The South American continent has more known hallucinogens than the rest of the planet combined."
"Locke, whom there is no reason to suspect of being a favorer of idleness or libertinism, has advanced that whoever hopes to employ any part of his time with efficacy and vigor must allow some of it to pass with trifles."
"Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals."
