The will to believe chases out the rational mind, whenever and wherever the two come into conflict. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
There has got to be a point that exists somewhere, when a rational person just has to shake his head and say:… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
“To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I believe that the subconscious always knows what is best. It is our conditional, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up. — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational. — John Milton Copy Share Image
The Christian image of God is that of a rational being who believes in human progress, more fully revealing himself as humans… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
Whether it’s a symphony or a coal mine, all work is an act of creating and comes from the same source: from… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To grasp organizational life as it is, read novels (!) … It is my fervent belief that we will never design rational… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
The Reagan Administration has no rational plan for our military. Instead, it acts on misinformed assumptions about the strength of the Soviet… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
While the constitution continues to be read, and its principles known, the states, must, by every rational man, be considered as essential… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Rational thinking is an important aspect of human nature, but we have imagination, we have ambition, we have irrational fear, we are… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
“To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
There is one unmistakable lesson in American history; a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
Climate change is not going to be prevented. It's not even going to be mitigated to the degree a rational person would… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
We have consciousness and rational powers but unless you're willing to spend the time to gain control of yourself, gain control of… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Divine Providence is connected with Divine intellectual influence, and the same beings which are benefited by the latter so as to become… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
American literature has been, and is, singularly deficient in established critics who have anything like a rational conception of their jobs. The… — Burton Rascoe Copy Share Image
Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document? We now know pretty well where the various… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
From whence it is obvious to conclude that, since our Faculties are not fitted to penetrate into the internal Fabrick and real… — John Locke Copy Share Image
If there are dollars to be made, you destroy the environment. The reason is elementary. The people who are going to be… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is far more rational to suppose that the courts were designed to be an intermediate body between the people and the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is the fertile hallucination that makes paint so compelling. Paint is like the numerologist's numbers, always counting but never adding up,… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
Do I wish that things were more orderly in Washington and rational and people listened to the best arguments and compromised and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a logical, rational… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
... immediately call on Congress to pass far-reaching industry regulation like the Firearms Safety and Consumer Protection Act ... [which] would give… — Josh Sugarmann Copy Share Image
If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The earlier, more analytic impulse was to use very rational but kind of absurd techniques or tendencies—mapping, charting, and architecture—to try and… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
Those guys are doing the Koch Brothers bidding and are against all the evidence of the rational mind, saying global warming does… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
One may rationally stick to a degenerating research programme until it is overtaken by a rival and even after. What one must… — Imre Lakatos 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
The neural processes underlying that which we call creativity have nothing to do with rationality. That is to say, if we look… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The film nicely shows how a person may make a rational decision to achieve a goal while at the same time unconsciously… — Renata Salecl Copy Share Image
It is an unfortunate fact that great and foolish excess can come into prices of common stocks in the aggregate. They are… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
We commit not only theoretical error but also moral wrong in objectifying ourselves or other rational beings, ignoring their capacities for free… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
In the primary debates for the 2016 election, every single Republican candidate was a climate change denier, with one exception, John Kasich… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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