Sentence examples for higher reason from inspiring English sources
"But I know this is for a higher reason, a better cause.
Its ultimate creation could be a higher reason, a more human community, & a new & liberated individual.
Whatever he thought he was telling us, Wagner was actually telling us: love who you want, regardless of social norms, and if you must suppress your feelings, do it knowingly, and for a higher reason.
Later under the influence of Cubism and its English variant, Vorticism, artists like Paul Nash and Frances Hodgkins abstracted nature into well-oiled machinery with trees, roads and clouds turned into interlocking streamlined parts, all radiating the light of higher reason.
Years later, when Downey had come clean about his cocaine and heroin addiction, he told Figgis: 'It blew my mind that you were one of the first people who seemed willing to just acknowledge what was going on with me, and honour the fact that I was willing myself into a bad place, maybe for some higher reason than just death.' Actors love Mike Figgis - and with good reason.
The superficial thought of materialists has failed to employ the higher reason of metaphysics in determining the ultimate cause of the existence of the physical and moral worlds.
Books I-II treat natural law or ius naturae, with "Marcus" (Cicero himself) declaring that "law is the highest reason, rooted in nature" (I.18), and that men, bound to the gods by reason, are "born for justice" (I.28 32).
This is more than double the percentage of the next highest reason.
During 2012 2013, dental conditions accounted for 63 000 avoidable hospital admissions, the third highest reason for acute preventable hospital admissions in Australia.
Drowning is the third highest reason for accidental injury globally, and 7%% of all injuries connected with death worldwide are caused by drowning [ 2].
In the Finnish Defence Forces, musculoskeletal injuries and disorders are the second highest reason for premature discharge from military service, and their number has been increasing [ 28].
