Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
In Turkey religion not only affects society but is affected by it, which is why Turkish Islam differs from Arab Islam. It's… — Andrew Mango Copy Share Image
Dub music is like a long echo delay, looping through time...turning the rational musical order into an ocean of sensation. — David Toop Copy Share Image
I have no phobias. Phobias are irrational. My fears are rational and CAREFULLY CULTIVATED, like roses. — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
People in the voting booth are not purely rational creatures any more than they're purely rational creatures outside the voting booth. — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
Behind every rational and irrational force in human society there is a social mechanism which determines where it is to appear and… — Karl Mannheim Copy Share Image
The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history. One has… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I believe in equality. But I don't like the word feminist, because it's such a rational belief to think that women are… — Michael Che Copy Share Image
However much the various phases of the French Revolution may have modelled themselves on Roman history the early phase on Republican virtue,… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
As a profession, freelance writing is notoriously insecure. That's the first argument in its favor. For many reasons, a few of them… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Many people think they are too refined, or too rational, to entertain a real sense of wonder in themselves or in others.… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The metaphoric mind includes rationality, linearity, and logic - for it created them. But like some children, the rational mind often seems… — Bob Samples Copy Share Image
The argument for collectivism is simple if false; it is an immediate emotional argument. The argument for individualism is subtle and sophisticated;… — Milton Friedman 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
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
This is a time when it is frightening to be alive, when it is hard to think of human beings as rational… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
All the worth which the human being possesses, all spiritual reality, he possesses only through the State. . . For Truth is… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
In legal parlance, that is called 'the rational person test,' ... That's where somebody else says, 'Even though we have no idea… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
Love begets wisdom, thus it is, as often misconceived, more than vain layers of tenderness; it is inherently rational and comprehensive of… — Criss Jami 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
You can't behave in a calm, rational manner. You've got to be out there on the lunatic fringe. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Kant certainly was sympathetic with the metaphysical tradition of rational theology that he criticized. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances. — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
Suppose that we believe what we are taught. . . . destroying the environment and militarizing outer space are rational policies . . . of institutional lunacy. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system… — Irwin Redlener Copy Share Image
I don't feel like emotion has place in a debate, because emotion doesn't encourage rational debate - it shuts it down. It… — Will Cain Copy Share Image
The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
That the vegetable creation should restore the air which is spoiled by the animal part of it, looks like a rational system,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A guest should be permitted to graze, as it were, in the pastures of his host's kindness, left even to his own… — Louise Imogen Guiney Copy Share Image
Devotion is diligence without assurance. If faith were rational, it wouldn't be by definition faith. Faith is walking face-first and full speed… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
We must be both rational and intellectual, both analytic and imaginative, utilizing both statistics and insight. — Lloyd Copy Share Image
If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational… — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The rational mind continually looks for similarities. A deeper mind sees the uniqueness in every particle and every situation. — Ruben Papian Copy Share Image
Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If you were a sane woman, I would, of course, behave in a more rational fashion. Since you are a lunatic, however,… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
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