I feel that one must deliberate then act, must scan every life choice with rational thinking but then base the decision on… — Jean Shinoda Bolen Copy Share Image
I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I don't think it's rational for a country to try to kill the Saudi Arabian ambassador in a restaurant in Washington. — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
I have heard about the civilized, the marriages run on talk, elegant and honest, rational. But and I are savages. — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
God is in all things, but so far as God is Divine and so far as He is rational, God is nowhere… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
I'm quite a rational person. I'm not very superstitious, but I really do enjoy horror as a genre. — Gemma Chan Copy Share Image
“So through no rational process whatsoever I was the leader, And I had no idea what I was going to say.” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Faith is blind if rejects reason. It is in fact a rational function, a process of the cultivation of wisdom that begins… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
Politicians such as Michelle Bachmann, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich along with talking heads such as Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck and Anne… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Writers do not want to think they are less rational than other people, and at the mercy of compulsions, but in their… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
In the humanist ideal, the mainstream is where interesting debate, the generating of new ideas and creativity take place. In rational society… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
But I still read Shaw on a regular basis. What I love is the nakedness of the polemic and the irresistible good… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“The wrong approaches to faith and to skepticism are equally detrimental to the path. For the former declares its answers too soon… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
…Man's struggle to be rational about himself, about his relationship to his own society and to other peoples and nations involves a… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
One of the essential differences between the liberal and conservative worldview is that the liberals believe in rationality, whereas conservative believe that… — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
A person who knows all the answers, has an opinion on everything, has a certainty backed up by rational argument, has very… — Edward de Bono 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
Louis B. Mayer is one of those with a claim to posessing the equation... he began to buy up nickelodeon arcades in… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
The scarcest resource these days is reason. What's certainly striking about American culture today is the great hostility toward science and the… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
Instead of a bottom-line based on money and power, we need a new bottom-line that defines productivity and creativity as where corporations,… — Michael Lerner Copy Share Image
When the waters of a lake are absolutely still, the lake reflects the trees, the sky, and everything around it perfectly. At… — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
If we suddenly plant our foot, and say, - I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch any food or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If men will permit themselves to think, as rational beings ought to think, nothing can appear more ridiculous and absurd, exclusive of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I would like people to pay attention to the idea of rational empathy, and that as a society, we are walking down… — Chris Kluwe Copy Share Image
Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
The mind of man, cleansed of secondary and merely temporal concerns, beholds with the radiance of a cleansed mirror a reflection of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I try to be rational and suppress the hope that this is for real, but hope has a way of closing its… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
There's no rational reason why opera should exist. It's expensive, time consuming. Yet in some shape or other it has always existed. — Jake Heggie Copy Share Image
The nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, most gun control advocates are not really interested in rational debate, and their political games simply send Alice chasing white rabbits… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The rational is apprehended through the intellect, however, the intellect is not found in the region of the rational; the intellect is… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
Remember, taboos are just a map of what a society feels it's acceptable to be neurotic about. Taboos aren't rational. — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
Human beings can remain spiritual and religious while enjoying the benefits of rational administration of their affairs. — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
Becoming fully rational is not enough anymore; evidently it can lead to distortions of all the great human possibilities. — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society. — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
