I find religion and spirituality fascinating. I would like to believe this isn't the end and there's something more, but I can't… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I don't like people who speak or think in terms of gaining anybody's confidence. If one's actions are honest, one does not… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is impossible to understand the economic system in which we are living if we try to interpret it as a rational… — Edwin Arlington Robinson Copy Share Image
Capitalism may even be identical with the restraint, or at least a rational tempering, of this irrational impulse. But capitalism is identical… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
I don't have the slightest interest in gold. I like understanding what works and what doesn't in human systems. To me that's… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Thing--they're just not always what they seem. And sometimes answers only come when we change our perspective. Which works in science and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Federal Reserve is the overlord of the money supply. If these two are not steering in the same direction, they can… — Wright Patman Copy Share Image
Hannibal Lecter: We live in a primitive time - don't we, Will? - neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
There is no author or legislator of the moral law. It is simply valid in itself in the nature or essence of… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
There is a lot of new research about how stress hormones affect your body and how you can work on giving your… — Ane Brun Copy Share Image
Hope and optimism are different. Optimism tends to be based on the notion that there's enough evidence out there to believe things… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
It is tempting to believe that social evils arise from the activities of evil men and that if only good men (like… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
It is actually a nice question how far Descartes himself endorses the monological and metaphysically dualistic theory of mind associated with his… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Baroque civilization believed in two truths, which for a post-18th-century mindset are exclusive truths - we have to eliminate one to believe… — Eugene Green Copy Share Image
If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The ghostly presence of virtual particles defies rational common sense and is nonintuitive for those unacquainted with physics. Religious belief in God,… — Antony Hewish Copy Share Image
In the socialist commonwealth every economic change becomes an undertaking whose success can be neither appraised in advance nor later retrospectively determined.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
George Bush and John Ashcroft were religious in a scary way, but the rational among us could always take heart that, deep… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
I am against the war, but I do support our white troops. No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. I'm not a Republican. I'm… — David Cross Copy Share Image
The difference in sex does not hinder the ability of being strong on the levels of thinking, giving, having a strong willpower… — Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah Copy Share Image
I cannot see that any rational American. . . could conceivably try to fulfill the major national purposes of the United States… — Charles Lichenstein Copy Share Image
In fact, at this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth-shaking transformation would occur simply if everybody truly evolved to… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“Human beings are rational creatures, in the descriptive though not always the normative sense of the word rational-and thus every impulse we… — Margaret R. Graver Copy Share Image
The influence of friendship upon culture differs from that of love, in that it assumes the basic idiosyncrasies of personal taste to… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
Our current use of time is not rational. There is therefore no point in seeking marginal improvements in how we spend our… — Richard Koch Copy Share Image
Is life less thrilling if your neighbors are rational, if they don’t bomb your power stations whenever they feel you need to… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
People are searching for reasons for believing, searching for answers to the big existential questions of "Why am I here?" and "What… — Jonathan Morris Copy Share Image
A system of philosophy, or metaphysics, is a union of a world view and a life view in one harmonious, complete, integral… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
It is no more rational to have lawyers in positions of power than it would be to have garbage collectors in positions… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
Any approach to scientific inference which seeks to legitimize it and answer in reponse to complex uncertainty is, for me, a totalitarian… — Adrian Smith Copy Share Image
Today's environment is beginning to threaten today's organizations, finding them seriously deficient in their nervous system design... The degree of coordination, perception,… — Douglas Engelbart Copy Share Image
The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Businesses will have to lead the charge - demanding uniform, national, predictable rules to govern this transition, so that there is a… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The attempt to apply rational arithmetic to a problem in geometry resulted in the first crisis in the history of mathematics. The… — David van Dantzig Copy Share Image
If you take an economics or a political science course, you're taught that humans are supposed to be rational wealth accumulators, each… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In the end, people either have excuses or experiences; reasons or results; buts or brilliance. They either have what they wanted or… — Erlend Bakke Copy Share Image
The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike,… — William James Copy Share Image
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. His voice… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
