I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We don't look at problems logically, we look at them emotionally. We look at them through the guts. We look at them… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
Long discourses, and philosophical readings, at best, amaze and confound, but do not instruct children. When I say, therefore, that they must… — John Locke 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
All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions… — Charles Brockden Brown Copy Share Image
Americans are cultured from their earliest years to be either one-sided douloi or one-sided banausoi, i.e. either they cannot think abstractively/conceptually/orchestrally or… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Still Caine hesitated. A big, warm bed. A beautiful girl to share it with. Food. Water. Everything he needed, just a few… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. On this conviction the plain man like the philosopher takes his… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Where are these rational practices to be taught and acquired? Not within the four walls of a bare building, in which formality… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
Serious rational criticism is so rare that it should be encouraged. Being too ready to defend oneself is more dangerous than being… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
This is why rational people - anti-religionists - must end their timidity and come out of their closet and assert themselves. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy. — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
Marketers know - no matter how deep the emotional connection or brand loyalty - when a product does not perform, rational thought… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet... [at least… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
For in the absence of debate unrestricted utterance leads to the degradation of opinion. By a kind of Greshams law the more… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Civilisation is only a pretense. In crisis we have become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and instead… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I contend that most emotional distress is best understood as a rational response to sick societies. — Oliver James 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
It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago. — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
I know the world of opera so intimately: historical sweep, sharply defined characters, not too rational an explanation of what's going on.… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
At best the principles that economists have supposed the choices of rational individuals to satisfy can be presented as guidelines for us… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
But the rational mind usually doesn't decide what emotions we "should" have ! — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Although reducing human emissions to the atmosphere is undoubtedly of critical importance, as are any and all measures to reduce the human… — Chris Rapley Copy Share Image
