Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Washington's incredible wastefulness of tax dollars is abhorrent to any sense of fairness or rational thinking. — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Of course I am partisan in my politics, but my partisanship is rational - which, in my book, is not necessarily oxymoronic. — Sadiq Khan Copy Share Image
“I find the rational part of my mind curled up in a corner of my head and convince it to talk to… — Tony Talbot Copy Share Image
I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We cannot fight against collectivism, unless we fight against its moral base: altruism. We cannot fight against altruism, unless we fight against… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Can we imagine a different world? I can. That's a world where work is rational, it's in the common good, and we're… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith. They feel no obligation to understand… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Raymond Aron ascribes to Weber the view that 'each man's conscience is irrefutable.' ... while [Weber] holds that an agent may be… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Discipline in typography is a prime virtue. Individuality must be secured by means that are rational. Distinction needs to be won by… — Stanley Morison Copy Share Image
Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we're actually unhappy. Emotion is good; passion is good. Being into… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
The internet was supposed to make this whole business of job searching rational and simple. You could post your resume and companies… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero.… — Roland Huntford Copy Share Image
I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Whenever I was confronted in the schoolyard, I found some way to avoid the fight. I ran for it. I backed down.… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
It's all emotion. But there's nothing wrong with emotion. When we are in love, we are not rational; we are emotional. When… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
When you have half of Caironese in slums, when you don't have clean water, when you don't have a sewer system, when… — Mohamed ElBaradei 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
Regardless of the method, the act of worship must be in spirit and truth-from our rational consciousness and consistent with the rest… — Darlene Zschech Copy Share Image
I'm suggesting that criminalizing chemically fertilized grass in favor of unnaturally-fed corn is not a rational trade off. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
“He has seen the bottomless nonsense of our world and has decided, like most of us, to simply try to tolerate it.… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
I'm a rational person, and I'm not a method actor. You don't need to call me by my character's name while I'm… — Zana Marjanovic Copy Share Image
“...you’d be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical.” — Dianna Hardy Copy Share Image
There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women or that men are more willing to surrender their irrational beliefs.… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
The Founding Fathers worried that 'some common impulse of passion' might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. It's a… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
Most of all I admire Mozart's capacity to be both deep and rational, a combination often said to be impossible. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Amor deliria nervosa: It affects your mind so that you cannot think clearly, or make rational decisions about your own well-being. Symptom… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
While men define themselves by deeds, women simply "are" beauty, grace, faith and goodness. Men tend to be rational and objective, women… — Henry Makow Copy Share Image
Respect for the dignity of others includes treating them as rational creatures capable of being persuadad by rational argument, even in the… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
The genuine values in America arose from rational thought and breaking with tradition, not from blind allegiance to dirt and cloth. — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“Humans think they are rational, and they think they understand their reality. But they are wrong on both counts.” — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The lived experiences which could not find adequate scientific expression in the substance doctrine of rational psychology were now validated in light… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
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