The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In my rational mind, I know... that is a very simplistic way of looking at it, but when there is violence of… — Linda Vester Copy Share Image
“Economic theory would tell you that a rational person would take the thirty dollars every time. Forget the other party, the decision… — Douglas E. Richards Copy Share Image
A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Turkey, as an ex-imperial power, is all in favor of empires guaranteeing law and order on its borders. Turkey's and America's basic… — Andrew Mango Copy Share Image
It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any… — Carrie Snow Copy Share Image
If I were in the unenviable position of having to study my work my points of departure would be the "Naught is… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
How long did it take me to delimit this art? Twenty years! ... It was a laborious process, but a methodical and… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
No one punishes the evil-doer under the notion, or for the reason, that he has done wrong -- only the unreasonable fury… — Plato Copy Share Image
Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
In short, I didn't become a Christian because God promised I would have an even happier life than I had as an… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
So how does one go about proving something like this? It's not like being a lawyer, where the goal is to persuade… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
For you deal here above all with human life, and human life is sacred; no one may dare make an attempt upon… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
“No matter how high are one's estimates of human stupidity, one is repeatedly and recurrently startled by the fact that: a) people… — Carlo M. Cipolla Copy Share Image
And yet my, not only my faith, but my experience has led me to believe that the world is not a construction… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
Empathy requires something extremely difficult: accepting the fact that we are not and never will be in the other person's shoes. There's… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
To go out of your mind once a day is tremendously important, because by going out of your mind you come to… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We avoid the gravest difficulties when, giving up the attempt to frame hypotheses concerning the constitution of matter, we pursue statistical inquiries… — J. Willard Gibbs Copy Share Image
I offer a genuine insight into how you can, and should, be a rational, science-believing human being and at the same time… — Bernard Haisch Copy Share Image
Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
When I see two owls and then two more owls and conclude that I see four owls, I am responding to reasons,… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
The legitimacy of coercive acts in a democracy arises from the process by which they are justified and by the degree to… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Forests, which I think do contain a lot mystery and traditionally are the setting for lawlessness and magic and what is outside… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity as a whole is changeful, mystical,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every single human civilization has failed over time, and my belief is that it's due to a lack of rational empathy, of… — Chris Kluwe Copy Share Image
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. Let it… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad… — Madeline Kahn Copy Share Image
“As emotions may take apart bit by bit the rational blueprints in our imagination, dreams may expose what is veiled in the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy . . . Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Colour is uncontainable. It effortlessly reveals the limits of language and evades our best attempts to impose a rational order on it… — David Batchelor Copy Share Image
As an atheist evolving to agnosticism, and seeking answers to whether or not belief in God is potentially rational, my life was… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Fear-bola attacks the part of the brain responsible for rational thinking. It starts with a low-grade concern about the two health care… — Mel Robbins Copy Share Image
The enormity of the universe revealed by science cannot readily be grasped by the human brain, but the music of The Planets… — Gustav Holst Copy Share Image
I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Civilisation is only a pretense. In crisis we have become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and instead… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Rational egoism is the only morality that is for human life; thus, it is the only morality that is actually moral. Those… — Craig Biddle Copy Share Image
The rational intellect doesn't have a great deal to do with love, and it doesn't have a great deal to do with… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
