Rational Quotes · Page 38

Marriage is a public declaration of a man and a woman that they have formed a secret alliance, with the intention to…

— Katherine Anne Porter

As a spiritual person, nature for me has always been a healing place. Going back all the way to my childhood on…

— David Mixner

The desire for magic cannot be eradicated. Even the most supposedly rational people attempt to practice magic in love and war. We…

— Erica Jong

When I was a kid, I thought that if everyone looked up the way I did then everyone would want to study…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Man can sin against nature in two ways. First, when he sins against his specific rational nature, acting contrary to reason. In…

— Thomas Aquinas

I believe, or sense, that the universe has not been constructed from a purely mechanical, logical, rational point of view, but there…

— Fred Alan Wolf

When I was a very young author, I knew I needed to build myself a tower outside of Europe. Like when you're…

— Henning Mankell

Murphy watched me thoughtfully for several empty seconds. Then she said, very gently, "You're a good man, Harry." I swallowed and bowed…

— Jim Butcher

A hundred years ago, Auguste Compte, ... a great philosopher, said that humans will never be able to visit the stars, that…

— Michio Kaku

I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith. They feel no obligation to understand…

— Mortimer Adler

Long discourses, and philosophical readings, at best, amaze and confound, but do not instruct children. When I say, therefore, that they must…

— John Locke

...any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe, and prevents…

— Julian Huxley

With regard to power, women don’t have the vanity men have. They don’t need to make power visible, they only want the…

— Anonymous

Where are these rational practices to be taught and acquired? Not within the four walls of a bare building, in which formality…

— Robert Owen

There is no "scientific worldview" just as there is no uniform enterprise "science" - except in the minds of metaphysicians, school masters,…

— Paul Feyerabend

Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful,…

— Richard Bach

The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The…

— Anthony Kennedy

It certainly seems too simple to say what I am going to say, yet it is almost as if you would be…

— Seth

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

Writers do not want to think they are less rational than other people, and at the mercy of compulsions, but in their…

— Hilary Mantel

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

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

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

What else can I do, a lame old man, but sing hymns to God? If I were a nightingale, I would do…

— Epictetus

In our view, though, investment students need only two well-taught courses-How to Value a Business, and How to Think about Market Prices.…

— Warren Buffett

Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in…

— Charles Hodge

Anthony Weiner deserves to be supported and hopefully he will be mayor of New York one day. I'm serious. He is a…

— Janeane Garofalo

I am once more seated under my own vine and fig tree ... and hope to spend the remainder of my days…

— George Washington

I have a reverence for medicine because I hero-worshiped my father [a former doctor], and because I admire doctors, I admire study,…

— Hugh Laurie

The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with terrorism, everything else must be…

— Guy Debord

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

“Those who saw the true beauty, complexity and the very nature of Nature are [all] incapable of using their intelligence for conciously…

— Anonymous

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

My interest at the moment is to use my dreaming self (which I also access in shamanic journeying) to engage with the…

— Amy Hardie

Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the…

— Annabelle Selldorf

I believe the personal essay is underrated for both writer and reader. It affords the writer great freedom: to speak personally yet…

— Marty Nemko

“Because everything does make sense, when you look at it from the right angle. All you have to do is find out…

— Susanna Kearsley

How is it that we have created an economic system that tells us it is cheaper to destroy the earth and exhaust…

— Paul Hawken

“If your view of the world is that people use reason for their important decisions, you are setting yourself up for a…

— Scott Adams

It is not rational to assume, without evidence, that rationality can disclose everything about the world, just because it can disclose some…

— Iain McGilchrist