Rational Quotes · Page 24

The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.

— Steven Pinker

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as…

— Robertson Davies

Since reason is man’s basic means of survival, that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good;…

— Ayn Rand

Kant was a rational theologian. He did not pretend to be a biblical or revealed theologian.

— Allen W. Wood

I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real…

— Laura Esquivel

“Life is fundamentally a mental state. We live in a dream world that we create. Whose life is truer, the rational man…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

In an evolutionary perspective, the rational mind takes a certain distance and no further, & we must be able to transcend it.

— Ram Dass

The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups,…

— H. L. Mencken

I don't think we are all irrational every time we fail to see through an argument in a book, but suppose it's…

— Nomy Arpaly

If you take an economics or a political science course, you're taught that humans are supposed to be rational wealth accumulators, each…

— Noam Chomsky

If I were in the unenviable position of having to study my work my points of departure would be the "Naught is…

— Samuel Beckett

Deterrence failed completely as a guide in setting rational limits on the size and composition of military forces, spurring an insatiable arms…

— George Lee Butler

I have a feeling,’ he said, ‘I have a feeling that we were meant to be together. That we have fought the…

— Neil Gaiman

Republicans: steely, rational, paternalistic, respectful of authority, easy to herd, the party of No. Democrats: sugary, emotional, idealistic, yearning for novelty, hard…

— James Wolcott

Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and…

— Robert M. Hutchins

You must never stop dreaming. Face reality, yes. But don't stop with the way things are; dream of things as they ought…

— Jesse Jackson

Most of all I admire Mozart's capacity to be both deep and rational, a combination often said to be impossible.

— Allan Bloom

I'm suggesting that criminalizing chemically fertilized grass in favor of unnaturally-fed corn is not a rational trade off.

— Joel Salatin

[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

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

Whenever you are in the world of the tonal, you should be an impeccable tonal; no time for irrational crap. But whenever…

— Carlos Castaneda

The perspective of eternity is not a perspective from a certain place beyond the world, nor the point of view of a…

— John Rawls

Topical-sketch writing were incredibly rational and well reasoned: don't do a joke if the subject doesn't deserve it. An ad hominem attack…

— Michael Schur

Religion prevents our children from having a rational education; religion prevents us from removing the fundamental causes of war; religion prevents us…

— Bertrand Russell

It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.

— A.J. Ayer