#reason

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #reason




God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.


Dag Hammarskjold


#beyond #cease #daily #day #deity

The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.


Jan Hammer


#any #anything #business #get #i

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.


Ben Hecht


#apt #full #him #himself #his

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.


Martin Heidegger


#begins #centuries #come #glorified #know

I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven.


Jascha Heifetz


#appreciate #beethoven #composer #composers #contemporary

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.


Edmund Hillary


#climb #climbs #expeditions #hell #money

So the reason that the Bay of Pigs failed was that the original promise made by Eisenhower was not kept by the subsequent Administration. It allowed hostile air to wipe out the approaching invasion force.


E. Howard Hunt


#air #allowed #approaching #bay #eisenhower

There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.


William H. Hunt


#distorted #features #his #imaginative #man

I'm insanely optimistic. For odd, weird reasons, things always work out.


Richard Jefferson


#i #insanely #odd #optimistic #out

There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.


Lara St. John


#having #instrument #intonation #play #possibility