reason

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.

Television is making sports universal; for the same reason, big-time soccer is growing more popular in the United States.

Do you have to have a reason for loving?

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan.

The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.

The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

We need to learn... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no good reason, we are encouraged to inflate and demonise our enemies in order to justify that war's indefinite continuance.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another... after the war is on.

A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.

Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.