Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
As a physicist, I've always found cosmology to be a rational elixir; it distances me from ordinary concerns. — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Apathy is a rational reaction to a system that no longer represents, hears or addresses the vast majority of people. — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
The creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The existence of mysterious relations between all these different domains is the most striking and delightful feature of mathematics (having no rational… — Vladimir Arnold Copy Share Image
It is possible for leaders or regimes to be cruel, bigoted, twisted in their world views and still make rational calculations with… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When man continues to destroy nature, he saws the very branch on which he sits since the rational protection of nature is… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
The political left, which holds itself as progressive, rational and fact-based, is becoming an enemy of academic inquiry, and a practitioner of… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Those who saw the true beauty, complexity and the very nature of Nature are [all] incapable of using their intelligence for conciously… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. We can't 'rationally' transcend the kind of primal pain… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
My interest at the moment is to use my dreaming self (which I also access in shamanic journeying) to engage with the… — Amy Hardie Copy Share Image
Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the… — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you had known in your childhood: that spirit… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Most people who've never experienced non-ordinary states of consciousness and only hear them described tend to try to describe them in terms… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
What else can I do, a lame old man, but sing hymns to God? If I were a nightingale, I would do… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If the finding of Coines, Medals, Urnes, and other Monuments of famous Persons, or Towns, or Utensils, be admitted for unquestionable Proofs,… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
Gossip, public, private, social - to fight against it either by word or pen seems, after all, like fighting with shadows. Everybody… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
The indispensability of reason does not imply that individual people are always rational or are unswayed by passion and illusion. It only… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“They [progressives] are men and women who tend to believe that the human being is perfectible and social progress predictable, and that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc... But… — Abraham Robinson Copy Share Image
Investors, monarchies, and parliamentarians devised methods to control the processes of wealth accumulation and the power that came with it, but the… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share Image
A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone’s orders, directives, or controls;… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
While reasons are provided by the facts,...rationality...depends instead on our beliefs. [...] [I]f I believe falsely that my hotel is on fire,… — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
Being able and willing to complain is what makes us rational and moral animals, capable of seeing and articulating the difference between… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge. — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem. — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
“The human brain always concocts biases to aid in the construction of a coherent mental life, exclusively suitable for an individual’s personal… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me… — David Hume Copy Share Image
There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It's time for the sensible center to rise up and push for a rational approach to our fiscal challenges. — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
You have to have a lot of passion for what you do... because if you don't, any rational person would give up. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational. — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
“Although I've always been easily led by my imagination, I was, and I remain, a rational person.” — Jostein Gaarder 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
That feelings of love and hate make rational judgments impossible in public affairs, as in private affairs, we can clearly enough see… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
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