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
Puritanism carried the ethos of the rational organization of capital and labor. It took over from the Jewish ethic only what was… — Max Weber 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
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
People are searching for reasons for believing, searching for answers to the big existential questions of "Why am I here?" and "What… — Jonathan Morris Copy Share Image
A system of philosophy, or metaphysics, is a union of a world view and a life view in one harmonious, complete, integral… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
It is no more rational to have lawyers in positions of power than it would be to have garbage collectors in positions… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
Today's environment is beginning to threaten today's organizations, finding them seriously deficient in their nervous system design... The degree of coordination, perception,… — Douglas Engelbart Copy Share Image
Any approach to scientific inference which seeks to legitimize it and answer in reponse to complex uncertainty is, for me, a totalitarian… — Adrian Smith Copy Share Image
The rational intellect doesn't have a great deal to do with love, and it doesn't have a great deal to do with… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I find religion and spirituality fascinating. I would like to believe this isn't the end and there's something more, but I can't… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I don't like people who speak or think in terms of gaining anybody's confidence. If one's actions are honest, one does not… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“What’s emerging from the pattern of my own life is the for belief that the crisis is being caused by the inadequacy… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“During this investigation, I became familiar with certain limits of the rational gaze. It tends to fragment reality and to exclude complementarity… — Jeremy Narby Copy Share Image
“Our enemies are quite good for relentlessly keeping us sharp and on our toes. This especially goes for sincere philosophers. They use… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
It's no understatement that the church has done a poor job in teaching our young people that reason and faith are not… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
For the first time in history, the rational and the good are fully armed in the battle against evil. Here we finally… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
If the finding of Coines, Medals, Urnes, and other Monuments of famous Persons, or Towns, or Utensils, be admitted for unquestionable Proofs,… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
When you have half of Caironese in slums, when you don't have clean water, when you don't have a sewer system, when… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
Although reducing human emissions to the atmosphere is undoubtedly of critical importance, as are any and all measures to reduce the human… — Chris Rapley 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
Zen is based on the recognition of two incompatible types of thought: rational and intuitive. — Tom Hoover Copy Share Image
Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other. — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
“In the center of an irrational universe governed by an irrational Mind stands rational man.” — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
To believe in faeries is to step into an enchanted space where the rational mind meets the irrational heart, and all things… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
-But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The obedience of men is to imitate the obedience of angels, and rational beings on earth are to live unto God, as… — William Law Copy Share Image
The truth is, after all the declamations we have heard, that the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
Faith is not a rational thing, and yet to understand the universe, rationality alone will not give it to us. Our understanding… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
Crisis alone is not enough. There must also be a basis, though it need be neither rational nor ultimately correct, for faith… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
