These are no ordinary claims; and it seems hardly possible for a rational being to regard them with even a subdued interest;… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with terrorism, everything else must be… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
What if I am wrong? Any rational investment plan has to start with that question. — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Remember, that when I speak of pleasures I always mean the elegant pleasures of a rational being, and not the brutal ones… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
To some extent, stocks are like Rembrandts. They sell based on what they've sold in the past. Bonds are much more rational.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't. — Anonymous 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
Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
With regard to power, women don’t have the vanity men have. They don’t need to make power visible, they only want the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no effective rational answer to the challenge: "But give me a reason why I should love someone who does not… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
I realized that, to a large degree, I had kept my rational mind at bay my whole life. I just acted on… — Jeff Mangum Copy Share Image
I really don't put it down. I never have. It's just that I analyze it and look at it from a very… — Marjoe Gortner Copy Share Image
“Once I make a decision, I decide to ignore any type of counter-arguments, no matter how reasonable they are. I have a… — Vizi Andrei Copy Share Image
How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions? — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
We like democracy because why? The pathologies of the U.S. version are so obvious in the aftermath of the latest averted crisis… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Providence has fixed the limits of human enjoyment by immovable boundaries, and has set different gratifications at such a distance from each… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Man has but little heeded the advice of the wise men. He has been - fatefully, if not willingly - less virtuous,… — Ralph Bunche Copy Share Image
What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
