We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order. — Nicolas Malebranche Copy Share Image
You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation… — William Kirby Copy Share Image
The real is the rational and the rational is the real. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
God, help me let go of my need to be afraid. I welcome peace, trust, acceptance, and safety into my life. I… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
In architecture it isn't enough to just have the right building that works well. It can also be beautiful. It can also… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
It is quite deplorable to see how many rational creatures, or at least who are thought so, mistake suffering for sanctity, and… — Sydney, Lady Morgan Copy Share Image
...If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When art seems to be empty of meaning, as no doubt some of the abstract painting of our own day actually does… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
[D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived… — Leo Tolstoy 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 evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The knowledge of God, the belief in God, is what I call an a-rational process. It's not rational - it doesn't proceed… — George Coyne Copy Share Image
People take it for granted that the physical world is both ordered and intelligible. The underlying order in nature - the laws… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Over the span of man's history, although a phenomenal amount of education, persuasion, indoctrination and incantation have been devoted to the effort,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If the transmigration of a soul takes place into a rational being, it simply becomes the soul of that body. But if… — Sallust Copy Share Image
I think young people really do care. They want to build their life on something that's solid and makes sense, that's rational,… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
Being in church so often, spending those hours sitting in front of a highly symbolic array of objects, hearing those beautiful texts… — George Saunders 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 re-interpretation and eventually (sic) eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the… — Brock Chisholm Copy Share Image
I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
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