“When I get honest I admit that I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and I… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
If you just try to make rational arguments about why people should care about Congo and how 5 million people have died,… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
What this means is that children, homemakers, executives, farmers, and long-living persons can all have high ego strength and good mental health… — Bob Samples Copy Share Image
If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man's only moral commandment is: Thou shalt think. But… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We could solve all our problems if only we were the efficient, rational human beings of standard economic theory and had politicians… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The great scientific achievements are research programmes which can be evaluated in terms of progressive and degenerative problemshifts; and scientific revolutions consist… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
“Life is fundamentally a mental state. We live in a dream world that we create. Whose life is truer, the rational man… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I'm also looking for the psychological elements that fuel commodity culture. For example, if we imbue girls with deep insecurity about their… — Lauren Greenfield Copy Share Image
“In rational inquiry, we idealize to selected domains in such a way (we hope) as to permit us to discover crucial features… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Psychologist Nathaniel Branden speaks of a benevolent sense of life possible to those with rational, productive values, vividly contrasted with the coercive… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
I don't believe that climate-change fiction will change the mind of a denier because most of the deniers I've met are basically… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
I was raised Catholic. But if someone says I was raised in some religion, that's insufficient information to actually know what was… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Since a rational man knows that man must achieve his goals by his own effort, he knows that neither wealth nor jobs… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always believed in the power of rational thinking and behavior as the savior of the world, and science fiction as a… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even… — Samuel Horsley Copy Share Image
The efficacy of religion lies precisely in what is not rational, philosophic, nor eternal; its efficacy lies in the unforeseen, the miraculous,… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great or rational whether in life or in… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
I chose the name Pi because it's an irrational number (one with no discernable pattern). Yet scientists use this irrational number to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
There are a zillion possibilities that you can do on a piece of paper; there is no rational way to choose. So… — Gabrielle Bell Copy Share Image
I think the idea that the hedge fund manager gets lower taxes than the taxi driver or the physics professor is insane.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents… — Lars Peter Hansen Copy Share Image
A mutual fund can do for you what you would do for yourself if you had sufficient time, training, and money to… — Venita VanCaspel Copy Share Image
I think that from the very beginning it wasn't simply, what made Playboy so popular was not simply the naked ladies, what… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Until the Great Depression, most economists clung to a vision of capitalism as a perfect or nearly perfect system. That vision wasn’t… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
The rational approach start from the idea that everything is explainable and that mystery is in some sense the enemy. This means… — Jeremy Narby Copy Share Image
We do not respect people's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons. If my reasons are good enough for believing what I believe, you… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The sheer folly of trying to defend a nation by destroying all life on the planet must be apparent to anyone capable… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
Science is at no moment quite right, but it is seldom quite wrong, and has, as a rule, a better chance of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Feelings take you into uncharted territory from time to time it's true, but you almost always benefit from the journey one way… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
“The mind of the most rational among us may be compared to a stormy ocean of passionate convictions based on desire, upon… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The main purpose of advertising is to undermine markets. If you go to graduate school and you take a course in economics,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You cannot measure rationality, you cannot determine whether a state is rational or not, by looking at outcomes - there's almost universal… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
Whether the teacher is authoritarian, undisciplined, competent, incompetent, serious, irresponsible, involved, a lover of people and of life, cold, angry with the… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The mind is the enemy of intuition, according to many New Age adherents, but I don't buy that. I look at everything… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
You're damn right we need a rational code of morality and ethics. But not much progress can be made in that direction… — Doug Graham Copy Share Image
