Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
I am glad that people are trying to have a rational conversation about drugs. — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Science stands for rational thought, faith for superstition and unreason. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision. — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
In that shrinking moment he discovered that he had never hated anyone until now. It was a feeling as pure as love,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I don't think all thinking is a kind of rational structure. But I don't think it is correct to identify the rational-nonrational… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“the most important point: that the universe is governed by a set of rational laws that we can discover and understand.” — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“The will is conceived as a faculty of determining oneself to action in accordance with the conception of certain laws. And such… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
George Bush and John Ashcroft were religious in a scary way, but the rational among us could always take heart that, deep… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The difference in sex does not hinder the ability of being strong on the levels of thinking, giving, having a strong willpower… — Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah Copy Share Image
I cannot see that any rational American. . . could conceivably try to fulfill the major national purposes of the United States… — Charles Lichenstein Copy Share Image
In fact, at this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth-shaking transformation would occur simply if everybody truly evolved to… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“Human beings are rational creatures, in the descriptive though not always the normative sense of the word rational-and thus every impulse we… — Margaret R. Graver Copy Share Image
The influence of friendship upon culture differs from that of love, in that it assumes the basic idiosyncrasies of personal taste to… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
Our current use of time is not rational. There is therefore no point in seeking marginal improvements in how we spend our… — Richard Koch Copy Share Image
I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
“It is one of the greatest Curses visited upon Mankind, he told me, that they shall fear where no Fear is: this… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Gossip, public, private, social - to fight against it either by word or pen seems, after all, like fighting with shadows. Everybody… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
The indispensability of reason does not imply that individual people are always rational or are unswayed by passion and illusion. It only… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“They [progressives] are men and women who tend to believe that the human being is perfectible and social progress predictable, and that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc... But… — Abraham Robinson Copy Share Image
Investors, monarchies, and parliamentarians devised methods to control the processes of wealth accumulation and the power that came with it, but the… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share Image
In the States, the movement's actually gotten much much much stronger. There really was no climate movement so to speak before that… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The only truly dependable production technologies are those that are sustainable over the long term. By that very definition, they must avoid… — Eliot Coleman Copy Share Image
Knowing where things are, and why, is essential to rational decision making — Jack Dangermond Copy Share Image
If we had a better understanding of the ways we think about enemies, we might be able to think of more rational… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational and habitual preference for all objects that flatter the sense of taste. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan. — Adelbert von Chamisso Copy Share Image
Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
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