I don't feel like emotion has place in a debate, because emotion doesn't encourage rational debate - it shuts it down. It… — Will Cain Copy Share Image
When it shall be said in any country in the world my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, 'This is… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith. They feel no obligation to understand… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't… — Natalie Jeremijenko Copy Share Image
To go out of your mind once a day is tremendously important, because by going out of your mind you come to… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The old beliefs, of course, and the rational approach, are everywhere reinforced, and so it does have a great weight. The magical… — Jane Roberts Copy Share Image
Humans are ambitious and rational and proud. And we don't fall in line with people who don't respect us and who we… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Behind every rational and irrational force in human society there is a social mechanism which determines where it is to appear and… — Karl Mannheim Copy Share Image
Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish. — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
If God is incomprehensible to man, it would seem rational never to think of Him at all. — Jean Meslier Copy Share Image
If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents… — Lars Peter Hansen Copy Share Image
If the Humanists wish to be champions of reason, they should consider the following: just as they would not admit mystics into… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I have something to say to the religionist who feels atheists never say anything positive: You are an intelligent human being. Your… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
American literature has been, and is, singularly deficient in established critics who have anything like a rational conception of their jobs. The… — Burton Rascoe Copy Share Image
Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined… — James Burnham Copy Share Image
When one analyzes the pre-conscious step to concepts, one always finds ideas which consist of 'symbolic images.' The first step to thinking… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
Being able and willing to complain is what makes us rational and moral animals, capable of seeing and articulating the difference between… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
But she couldn't dismiss easily his light touch with her. No pushing or pressing, none of that herding and corralling bullshit, unlike… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
Surely no rational or realistic person will discount the possibility that [during wartime] the United States might suddenly resort to nuclear weapons.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
That feelings of love and hate make rational judgments impossible in public affairs, as in private affairs, we can clearly enough see… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
