Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational and habitual preference for all objects that flatter the sense of taste. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
“the most important point: that the universe is governed by a set of rational laws that we can discover and understand.” — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Puritanism carried the ethos of the rational organization of capital and labor. It took over from the Jewish ethic only what was… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Man is said to be a rational creature; but should it not rather be said, that man is a creature capable of… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
Rational order in the technological world can be as fascinating as the fetishes of a Congo witch-doctor - scientific phenomena become significant… — Eduardo Paolozzi Copy Share Image
Zen is based on the recognition of two incompatible types of thought: rational and intuitive. — Tom Hoover Copy Share Image
Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
I grew up in Germany during the Nazi period, and I came to this country when I was 15. And then I… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which,… — Hosea Ballou 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
Since philosophy is the exploration of the rational, it is for that very reason the apprehension of the present and the actual,… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Who has forbidden women to engage in private and individual studies? Have they not a rational soul as men do?...I have this… — Juana Inés de la Cruz Copy Share Image
Man is much more than a 'rational being' and lives more by sympathies and impressions than by conclusions. It darkens his eyes… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized… — George Henry Borrow Copy Share Image
They are nonhuman persons. They are not food. If animals matter morally at all, there is one and only one rational response:… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
When people are temperate in their behavior, in their lives, someone who is addictive or extreme or obsessive can't understand how people… — James Toback Copy Share Image
Our mania for rational explanations obviously has its roots in our fear of metaphysics, for the two were always hostile brothers. Hence,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
But now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. The world… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
There was only one catch and that was Catch22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One of the most thoughtless statements, parroted ad nauseam ever since rational concern for our environment exploded into an emotional syndrome, calls… — Krafft Arnold Ehricke Copy Share Image
Since ancient times, the left side has stood for the side of the unconscious or the unknown; the right side, by contrast,… — Jean Gebser Copy Share Image
A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according… — Elsie de Wolfe 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
Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other. — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
“In the center of an irrational universe governed by an irrational Mind stands rational man.” — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones. — Bill Forsyth Copy Share Image
-But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences. — Alan Lightman 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
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
When you by nature subscribe to the view that everyone except yourself is a berk or a wanker, it is hard to… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world… — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
