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
You can't behave in a calm, rational manner. You've got to be out there on the lunatic fringe. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Kant certainly was sympathetic with the metaphysical tradition of rational theology that he criticized. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances. — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
Suppose that we believe what we are taught. . . . destroying the environment and militarizing outer space are rational policies . . . of institutional lunacy. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In Turkey religion not only affects society but is affected by it, which is why Turkish Islam differs from Arab Islam. It's… — Andrew Mango Copy Share Image
I have no phobias. Phobias are irrational. My fears are rational and CAREFULLY CULTIVATED, like roses. — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
If I were in the unenviable position of having to study my work my points of departure would be the "Naught is… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to find some secret places in the human brain because I think movies tend to be too rational sometimes.… — Quentin Dupieux Copy Share Image
Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what… — David Simon Copy Share Image
The necessary precondition for the birth of science as we know it is, it would seem, the diffusion through society of the… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
In the Republic Plato presents a theory of personality. ... He speaks of three faculties, the appetitive, the ambitious, and the rational.… — Thomas McEvilley Copy Share Image
I fear getting things wrong and messing up, and this makes no rational sense. When I'm mindful and awake, I know mistakes… — Jaime Murray Copy Share Image
[I]n Great-Britain it is said that their constitution relies on the house of commons for honesty, and the lords for wisdom; whichwould… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If we suddenly plant our foot, and say, - I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch any food or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The scarcest resource these days is reason. What's certainly striking about American culture today is the great hostility toward science and the… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
Louis B. Mayer is one of those with a claim to posessing the equation... he began to buy up nickelodeon arcades in… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions… — Charles Brockden Brown Copy Share Image
In the last few decades we have seen the extraordinary rise of ecosocialist movements around the world inspired in large part by… — John Bellamy Foster Copy Share Image
Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Wherefore, as I have said to you, I, God, have become man, and man has become God by the union of My… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course; and tried to dwell much on this argument of rational… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
People in the voting booth are not purely rational creatures any more than they're purely rational creatures outside the voting booth. — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Destruction of the environment is not only rational; it's exactly what you're taught to do in college. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The illogical man is what advertising is after. This is why advertising is so anti-rational; this is why it aims at uprooting… — Henryk Skolimowski Copy Share Image
“The choice was made to be less emotional, more rational, and less "human." What an odd step in our so-called evolution.” — Michael Eli Vineberg Copy Share Image
The core of the Marxist critique of capitalism is that although the individual capitalist is rational (as liberals assume), the capitalist system… — Robert Gilpin 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
You start with the right amount of rational and emotional experiences. You have to blend those in your product when you come… — Tony Fadell Copy Share Image
Indeed, eventually, random outcomes all revert to the mean, meaning that streaks eventually end. Understanding this is a key part of intelligent… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think. — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only… — Jean Gebser Copy Share Image
Most investors give too much credence to the theory that prices are rational; they presume that a market collapse must have been… — Kenneth Fisher 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
All social life is essentially practical. All mysterious which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Much as I like reasonable persons, I hate completely rational beings. For that reason, I am always scared and ill at ease… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“Take the case of courage. No quality has ever so much addled the brains and tangled the definitions of merely rational sages.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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