Pastoral Resources

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.

The loss of reason in war seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.

Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.

Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

Reason in man is rather like God in the world.

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.

Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

I have 40 years of unpublished material, the ones they don't pick, and the reason I don't redraw them or use them again is that I like to use my brain every day and come up with new jokes.

The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to one thing happening.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.