It is not music's function to express rational necessities.

Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and that the…

— Eric Kandel

I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that…

— Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet

People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think.

— Peter Watts

Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but damaging to…

— Randy Schekman

It's encouraging to watch bipartisan leaders from different states recognize the need for fair and rational legislation focused on creating second chances for those…

— Michael G. Rubin

“It's just that I take riddling seriously. I was taught that the ability to solve them indicates a sane and rational mind.”

— Stephen King

The first koan do not have rational answers. They are techniques devised over the millennia for triggering an actual experience.

— Huston Smith

... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose,…

— Frances Wright

We know from this book entitled... What is it? Surrendered? Succumbed? I can never remember the title perform. And we learn from this book…

— Rush Limbaugh

For the utilitarian, there is a fact of the matter about the good (the general happiness, or whatever conception of the good the utilitarian…

— Allen W. Wood

“Other folk thought the Rage was simple bloodlust, a berserk savagery that neither knew nor cared what its target was, and so it was…

— David Weber

Cheshvan starts tonight," Rixon said, "What are you doing arsing around in a graveyard?" "Thinking." "Thinking?" "A process by which I use my brain…

— Becca Fitzpatrick

Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the…

— Lewis Mumford

The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human…

— Charles A. Reich

Grandma, please. It’s okay. Dad’s doing a great job. I give him kudos for at least being calm and rational, and not losing his…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon