I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized… — George Henry Borrow Copy Share Image
They are nonhuman persons. They are not food. If animals matter morally at all, there is one and only one rational response:… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, 'This is… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
While the apostles of the new so-called "behavioral" theory present ample evidence of how often human beings make irrational financial decisions, it… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Comedy mocks the vanity of visions of rational control. The person who can joke amidst a confrontation with evil, like the quick-witted… — Peter Leithart Copy Share Image
Since philosophy is the exploration of the rational, it is for that very reason the apprehension of the present and the actual,… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Who has forbidden women to engage in private and individual studies? Have they not a rational soul as men do?...I have this… — Juana Inés de la Cruz Copy Share Image
One of the most revolutionary concepts to grow out of our clinical experience is the growing recognition that innermost core of man's… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
“So much of what we imagine to be the testimony of reason or the clear and unequivocal evidence of our senses is… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
The nude gains its enduring value from the fact that it reconciles several contrary states. It takes the most sensual and immediately… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
It is reported of that prodigy of parts, Monsieur Pascal, that till the decay of his health had impaired his memory, he… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Upon the whole, Chymistry is as yet but an opening science, closely connected with the usefull and ornamental arts, and worthy the… — Joseph Black Copy Share Image
What is most disturbing today is that we use rational methods to cultivate the tastes and values of the young in all… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
The true Enlightenment thinker, the true rationalist, never wants to talk anyone into anything. No, he does not even want to convince;… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Jurors have found, again and again, and at critical moments, according to what is their sense of the rational and just. If… — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief… — Yahoo Serious Copy Share Image
“As infuriating as it may be, we must be rational and fair about our own work. This is difficult considering our conflict… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Every night on my show, The Colbert Report, I speak straight from the gut, okay? I give people the truth, unfiltered by… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
There is no logical basis to support the theory that plants feel pain. The dubious possibility that they might, however, is no… — Joanne Stepaniak Copy Share Image
It is quite deplorable to see how many rational creatures, or at least who are thought so, mistake suffering for sanctity, and… — Sydney, Lady Morgan Copy Share Image
The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Put the money into schools. Rational ones that train young minds to think, to demand that persons in authority show the evidence… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
“I don't think I'm being harassed by little green stalkers. I don't know what's really going on, but I'd rather try to… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
Ireland is becoming like everywhere else, but that's the one I grew up in: the one that's hugely illogical. Rather wonderful, in… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
Personally, I don't see old economics and behavioural economics as opposed. It is useful to assume people are rational as a good… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
It is not intuitive ease I am after, but rather a point of view which is sufficiently definite to clear up some… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I was there when Abbe Georges Lemaître first proposed this [Big Bang] theory. ... There is no rational reason to doubt that… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
I think women are really vicious in the work place, they're really jealous, really competitive. Women are emotional, they cry in toilets.… — Katie Hopkins Copy Share Image
If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks. How often have you been presented with… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Presented with the claims of nineteenth-century racist anthropology, a rational person will ask two sorts of questions: 'What is the scientific status… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
My argument has always been that nature has a master plan pushing every species toward procreation and that it is our right… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
By bringing about a rational drug policy, we'd be freeing up a lot of resources for real crime. Drug disputes would get… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
It is the job of conscious rational thought to decide what you want, select the goals you wish to achieve-and concentrate upon… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
You can’t be a rational person six days a week and on one day of the week, go to a building, and… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“I think we're going back to the way things use to be, before a bunch of European intellectuals in tights decided to… — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
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