Most of all I admire Mozart's capacity to be both deep and rational, a combination often said to be impossible. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Amor deliria nervosa: It affects your mind so that you cannot think clearly, or make rational decisions about your own well-being. Symptom… — Lauren Oliver 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
While men define themselves by deeds, women simply "are" beauty, grace, faith and goodness. Men tend to be rational and objective, women… — Henry Makow Copy Share Image
“I find the rational part of my mind curled up in a corner of my head and convince it to talk to… — Tony Talbot Copy Share Image
I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I'm suggesting that criminalizing chemically fertilized grass in favor of unnaturally-fed corn is not a rational trade off. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
“He has seen the bottomless nonsense of our world and has decided, like most of us, to simply try to tolerate it.… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I often wish for the end of the wretched remnant of my life; and that wish is a rational one; but then… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
They [human beings] are unwilling to gamble that God made those people who are skilled at rational argumentation uniquely virtuous. They protect… — James G. March Copy Share Image
Man’s rights can be violated only by the use of physical force. It is only by means of physical force that one… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I'm not sure most of the people that get caught up in the middle of a bubble can be described as irrational.… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Capitalism is the sorcerer's apprentice: it has summoned up powers which have spun wildly out of control and now threaten to destroy… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“It’s cool when fashion recycles itself, it’s not cool when sustainable living does because it means there was (and is as I… — Cameron Conaway Copy Share Image
All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly. .… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Other folk thought the Rage was simple bloodlust, a berserk savagery that neither knew nor cared what its target was, and so… — David Weber Copy Share Image
When one analyzes the pre-conscious step to concepts, one always finds ideas which consist of 'symbolic images.' The first step to thinking… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists-whatever else they might be-might also be rational human beings ;… — William Blum Copy Share Image
The argument from design is ultimately an appeal to miraculous causes, i.e., causes that do not, and cannot, occur in the natural… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
And if a minister shall usurp the supreme and absolute govern ment of America, and set up his instructions as laws in… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
“If men were rational, they would take a more correct view of their own interest than they do at present; and if… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I cannot pursue my architecture without considering the minimization of energy consumption, simple and direct technologies, a respect for site, climate, place… — Glenn Murcutt Copy Share Image
“No man need fear that by making himself rational he will make his life dull. On the contrary, since rationality consists in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I'm a rational person, and I'm not a method actor. You don't need to call me by my character's name while I'm… — Zana Marjanovic Copy Share Image
“...you’d be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical.” — Dianna Hardy Copy Share Image
Washington's incredible wastefulness of tax dollars is abhorrent to any sense of fairness or rational thinking. — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Of course I am partisan in my politics, but my partisanship is rational - which, in my book, is not necessarily oxymoronic. — Sadiq Khan 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 rational mind of man is a shallow thing, a shore upon a continent of the irrational, wherein thin colonies of reason… — Wilford O Cross 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
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
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
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
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
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