A philosopher may deplore the eternal discords of the human race, but he will confess, that the desire of spoil is a… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that; they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Democracy, in any rational form, also imposes conditions on majority rule. That's what the Bill of Rights is about, for example. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Most astronauts are very down-to-earth people. Many of us, three-quarters, have an engineering degree, and we have a very Cartesian, rational approach… — Julie Payette Copy Share Image
Labor was marching toward the goal of industrial democracy and contributing constructively toward a more rational arrangement of our domestic economy. — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The tubular steel chair is surely rational from technical and constructive points of view. It is light, suitable for mass production, and… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Idiots are not responsible for what they do. The real guilt falls on rational people who sit on their hands while morons… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Aristotle thought that humans are rational animals and Hobbes thought that we act on the basis of rational self-interest. If only! It's… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
In [the soul] one part naturally rules, and the other is subject, and the virtue of the ruler we maintain to be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“The rational arguments against suicide are compelling. It causes intense suffering for loved ones that few would intend in their right mind.… — Michael Gerson Copy Share Image
“Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. A contradiction cannot exist. No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
...If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Lawyers have a way of seeing that sets them apart from the rest of us. In some way this special vision makes… — Thane Rosenbaum Copy Share Image
Historically, labor unions arose when people had gotten a taste of a different lifestyle and were willing to pay a lot more… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
I used to refer to my drug use as putting the monster in the box. I wanted to be less, so I… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
I realized that, to a large degree, I had kept my rational mind at bay my whole life. I just acted on… — Jeff Mangum Copy Share Image
Although objectively greater demands are placed on this authority, it operates less as a public opinion giving a rational foundation to the… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
I am not anti-rational, just unrational. You may infer a rational meaning in what I say or do, but it is your… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French. — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I would like to see our society mature, and become more rational and more knowledge-based, less emotion-based. — George Lucas Copy Share Image
“Division may be rational or irrational. Dominance either seems or is justified. Difference is.” — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of… — Sargent Shriver Copy Share Image
The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
It is remarkable that God began this work among the Indians at a time when I had the least hope, and to… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
“If I have to die either for religion or atheism I would prefer atheism, since my conscience will respect my rational decision.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
It seems to me that at least as far as the financial markets are concerned, there is increasing evidence against rational expectations,… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
The mind effortlessly and automatically takes in new ideas, which remain in limbo until verified or rejected by conscious, rational analysis. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
I have yet to meet the famous Rational Economic Man theorists describe. Real people have always done inexplicable things from time to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes, Edie, a person's feelings aren't rational. At least, they don't seem that way on the surface. You have to dig a… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
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