What I'm saying is that I'm trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that's neveer a good sign. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“It's just that I take riddling seriously. I was taught that the ability to solve them indicates a sane and rational mind.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world. — Plato Copy Share Image
A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named… — Morrie Schwartz Copy Share Image
All I desire for my own burial, is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, 'This is… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
While the apostles of the new so-called "behavioral" theory present ample evidence of how often human beings make irrational financial decisions, it… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
The prospect, that a good general government will in all human probability be soon established in America, affords me more substantial satisfaction;… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Art is the expression of the conviction that we can have a rational relationship with the world and each other. It isn't… — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Most specifically, irrationality means that rational systems are unreasonable systems. By that I mean that they deny the basic humanity, the human… — George Ritzer Copy Share Image
There is some conflict between religion and science in my world, but that's nothing new. Science, at its root, is a rational… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“As I see it the world is undoubtedly in need of a new religion, and that religion must be founded on humanist… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
When you look at any experimental work not directly related to economics, but trying to test rational behavior in other ways, experiments… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
I do not see why the axiom of Prudence should not be questioned, when it conflicts with present inclination, on a ground… — Henry Sidgwick Copy Share Image
Every fairy tale, it seems, concludes with the bland phrase "happily ever after." Yet every couple I have ever known would agree… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Copy Share Image
We believe this approach (progress sharing) is a rational approach because you cooperate in creating the abundance that makes the progress possible,… — Walter Reuther Copy Share Image
“One does not learn anything except by believing something, and -- conversely -- if one doubts everything one learns nothing. On the… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
There was an idea that God created man different from other animals, because man was rational and animals had drives and instincts.… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
A purpose derived from a false premise - that a deity has ordained submission to his will - cannot merit respect. The… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
“No matter how far luck is running away from you , rational decisions, Hard working, and sacrifices always brings it back to… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to. — George Soros Copy Share Image
Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
People do not consciously and rationally choose the form of their society. Societies develop through processes of social evolution that are not… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
I was once like you, enlightened and "rational", I too scoffed at lovers, Now I am drunk, crazed, thin with misery. No… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Sometimes I see it [a foul by an Arsenal player], but I say that I didn’t see it to protect the players… — Arsene Wenger Copy Share Image
You cannot expect any rational thought from a religious man. He is like a rocking log in water. — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Copy Share Image
What no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate… — Austin Farrer Copy Share Image
No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
More often than not, in order to find truth, a wise man must suffer the ravings of the insane. There is no… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
What do you do when your world is falling apart? How do you hold onto the real and the rational? I think… — Erica Durance Copy Share Image
I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision… — Bill Ackman Copy Share Image
“When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Thank you for calling customer service. If you're calm and rational, press 1. If you're a whiner, press 2. If you're a… — Randy Glasbergen Copy Share Image
The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
It is not enough to have a talented designer; the management must be inspired too. The creative process is very disorganised; the… — Bernard Arnault Copy Share Image