“Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise… — Alan Lightman 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
It is the fertile hallucination that makes paint so compelling. Paint is like the numerologist's numbers, always counting but never adding up,… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
Why did the Germans and Japanese keep fighting after 1943 when every rational hope of victory had disappeared? — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
I believe that the subconscious always knows what is best. It is our conditional, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up. — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths — Moses Mendelssohn 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
I am a rational man, but haven't you heard? i'm also insane. It gives me a unique perspective on things. — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
I dont see much difference between it and the other films though I can see on a rational and intelligent level there… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
I advance no exaggerated or fanciful claim for Vegetarianism. It is not, as some have asserted, a "panacea" for human ills; it… — Henry Stephens Salt Copy Share Image
In the face of such overwhelming statistical possibilities hypochondria has always seems to me to be the only rational position to take… — John Diamond Copy Share Image
I invent, find, and borrow ways of making painterly statements, which reflect my person to the extent that I am able to… — Thornton Willis Copy Share Image
Marriage is a public declaration of a man and a woman that they have formed a secret alliance, with the intention to… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
Comedy mocks the vanity of visions of rational control. The person who can joke amidst a confrontation with evil, like the quick-witted… — Peter Leithart Copy Share Image
The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialization of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the… — Fritjof Capra 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
You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat… — Akio Morita Copy Share Image
“One way or another we are all biased, but still we have the modern cortical capacity to choose whether or not to… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A mode of knowledge rooted in silence and intuitive insight which gives meaning to life but which cannot be explained in rational… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
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