Nature is relentless and unchangeable and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
Virtue is a habit of the mind consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
Our soul is cast into a body where it finds number time dimension. Thereupon it reasons and calls this nature necessity and can believe nothing else.
He who can be and therefore is another's and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend but not to have is a slave by nature.
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.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance nature compulsions habit reason passion desire.
My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.
For some reason the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting any more than it has any reason for ending.
I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.
I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.
For whatever reason not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And believe me it is a gift.
The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you.
It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.
You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.
The more a race is governed by its passions the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument the more intense will be its love of music.
The man that hath no music in himself Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds is fit for treasons stratagems and spoils.
The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored.
I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something.
Well the thing about great fictional characters from literature and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies is that they completely speak to what makes people human.
Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that's what they are - they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain.
Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me for some odd reason it goes deeper than that.