“Genuine recollections almost invariably explain oneself to oneself. Suppose, for example, that you feel an instinctive aversion to some particular kind of wine. Try as you will, you can find no reason for it. Suppose when you explore a previous incarnation, you remember you died by a poisoned administered in a wine of that kind, your aversion is explained by the proverb: 'A burnt child dreads the fire.'” FeelsTryingKindChildrenReasonRememberFireExampleParticularDiedWineOneselfGenuineNo ReasonDreadIncarnationRecollectionRemember YouRemembers YouAversion Author:Aleister Crowley
“There is no reason why an extraphysical general principle is necessarily to be avoided, since such principles could conceivably serve as useful working hypotheses. For the history of scientific research is full of examples in which it was very fruitful indeed to assume that certain objects or elements might be real, long before any procedures were known which would permit them to be observed directly.” LongRealReasonMightCertainKnownPrinciplesExampleObjectsElementsResearchAssumingReason WhyNo ReasonPermitBeing RealHypothesisAvoidedProceduresScientific Research Author:David Bohm
“To stimulate optimal size and strength increases, it's imperative that you regularly attempt the momentarily impossible. For example, if you can curl 100 pounds for a maximum of 10 reps, but never attempt the 11th, your body has no reason to enlarge upon its existing capacity. It is only by regularly attempting to go beyond your existing capacity that inroads are made into your body's reserves.” IfsMadeReasonBodyImpossibleExampleCapacityIncreaseSizeYour BodyNo ReasonPoundsReservesMaximumAttemptingImperativesCurlsOptimal Author:Mike Mentzer
“An observer will see the bizarre developments of behavior only in alien cultures, not his own. Nevertheless this is obviously a local and temporary bias. There is no reason to suppose that any one culture has seized upon an eternal sanity and will stand in history as a solitary solution of the human problem. Even the next generation knows better. Our only scientific course is to consider our own culture, so far as we are able, as one example among innumerable others of the variant configurations of human culture.” KnowsHumansReasonProblemAbleCultureCoursesNextGenerationsExampleDevelopmentBehaviorEternalSolutionsLocalsAliensNo ReasonTemporarySanitySolitaryBiasNeverthelessBizarreObserversNext GenerationConfigurationHuman Problems Author:Ruth Benedict
“There is no reason why a joke should not be appreciated more than once. Imagine how little good music there would be if, for example, a conductor refused to play Beethoven's Fifth Symphony on the ground that his audience might have heard it before.” IfsShouldLittlesReasonPlayMightWould BeAudienceImagineHeardExampleJokesReason WhyNo ReasonAppreciatedFifthSymphonyConductor Author:A. P. Herbert