Pastoral Resources

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.

Why would anyone expect Tyson to come out smarter? He went to prison for four years, not Princeton.

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.

If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think the reason for that is that music played a very important part.

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.

As a matter of fact they'd blacken us down. I guess there's a reason that according to what the Caucasian wanted us to look like. He wanted us to look-if we were Black, then he had his idea of what we look like.

Faith is reason grown courageous.

Faith is not contrary to reason.

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.

Though I am still very vulnerable to audiences - and it happens all the time - where for some reason the energy doesn't connect and, since the film is very personal, obviously I am made to feel very vulnerable by that.

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

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.

I write plays, and I have a musical that's starting to get produced now. That's what I would love to do, but it's so hard. The only reason people are reading my plays and musicals is because I'm in movies.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.