I still do not know what impels anyone sound of mind to leave dry land and spend a lifetime describing people who… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
Religion should be subject to commonsense appraisal and rational review, as openly discussible as, say, politics, art and the weather. The First… — Jeffrey Tayler 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
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
A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole.… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The only truly dependable production technologies are those that are sustainable over the long term. By that very definition, they must avoid… — Eliot Coleman Copy Share Image
A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone's orders, directives, or controls;… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only… — Jean Gebser 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
But as sickness and diseases have created the necessity of medicines and physicians, so the disorders of our rational nature have introduced… — John Wesley 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
A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
Rational people, anti-religionists, must end their timidity and come out of the closet and assert themselves. And those who consider themselves only… — Bill Maher 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
The link between rational individual behavior and collectively desirable outcomes is extremely tenuous. — Robert H. Frank 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
To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The desire for magic cannot be eradicated. Even the most supposedly rational people attempt to practice magic in love and war. We… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Leaders console the world with their speeches, heroes console the world with their actions.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
One of the peculiarities of economics is that it still rests on a behavioral assumption-rational utility maximization-that has long since been rejected… — Lester Thurow Copy Share Image
