reason

Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile.

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow, it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

Time makes more converts than reason.

There is no reason why the women of the country should not greatly advance themselves.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity.

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.

If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

Running clears my mind, and gives me a reason to get out of bed in the morning.

I really empathise with some of my peers who had success in the early years; then it dries up, and so there's no reason to get up in the morning.

As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.

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