“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
To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he… — Ayn Rand 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
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
In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling… — Benjamin Carson 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
I find it hard to understand why those who demand Unitary Education by the State do not also demand a Unitary Press… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“I am concerned with social and environmental issues. What rational person is not? But advocacy and art do not mix. Art is… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
From whence it is obvious to conclude that, since our Faculties are not fitted to penetrate into the internal Fabrick and real… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Whenever I was confronted in the schoolyard, I found some way to avoid the fight. I ran for it. I backed down.… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
The rationale for accepting or rejecting any theory is thus fundamentally based on the idea of problem-solving progress. If one research tradition… — Larry Laudan Copy Share Image
Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero.… — Roland Huntford Copy Share Image
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Aldous Huxley] compared the brain to a 'reducing valve'. In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the… — Tom Wolfe 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
...(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
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
The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents. — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
From 1918 on, trade unionists were to express from the platforms of their congresses the workers' desire for peace through a rational… — Leon Jouhaux Copy Share Image
As an engineer, I learned that a long time ago: you don't want to get into a rational discussion about irrational subjects. — Shahid Khan Copy Share Image
I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
There is no comfortable middle path where we get to provide a rational justification for our basic moral, religious and common sense… — Frederick C. Beiser 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
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