“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
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
It is impossible to understand the economic system in which we are living if we try to interpret it as a rational… — Edwin Arlington Robinson Copy Share Image
I don't have the slightest interest in gold. I like understanding what works and what doesn't in human systems. To me that's… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Thing--they're just not always what they seem. And sometimes answers only come when we change our perspective. Which works in science and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the socialist commonwealth every economic change becomes an undertaking whose success can be neither appraised in advance nor later retrospectively determined.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Hannibal Lecter: We live in a primitive time - don't we, Will? - neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy . . . Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires… — Ayn Rand 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
It's all emotion. But there's nothing wrong with emotion. When we are in love, we are not rational; we are emotional. When… — Frank Luntz 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
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
In the past, secularists sought to challenge dogma by the use of rational argument, claiming, for example, that miracles described in the… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
“The digital age believes in the rational ordering of human beings. We believe that information will eventually solve every conceivable problem.” — R.F. Georgy Copy Share Image
We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our exclusive dependence on rational thought and language has obscured our natural ability to sense the flow of energy. — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
I am continually calming the restless scanning of my rational mind in order to perceive the finer energies that enable me to… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Kant did think he had a moral route back to rational faith in God, for those who need it, and he thought… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Democracy allows rhetoric, false empathy and emotion to pummel rational thinking - so it's no wonder so many politicians thrive in it. — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
![“It's all emotion. But there's nothing wrong with emotion. When we are in love, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are on vacation, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are happy, we are not [rational]. In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we're actually…” quote by Frank Luntz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/88f/frank-luntz-4874_cases_it-s-all-emotion-but-there-s-nothing-wro_2569910.jpg)
