I should have thought of this years ago. But that was the problem with being sane. Sane people played by the rules.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon 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
Most writers I know move back and forth between the rational and the intuitive, though there are some who approach writing very… — Peter Turchi Copy Share Image
I want to say, and this is very important: at the end we lucked out. It was luck that prevented nuclear war.… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
An aphorism is a mental exercise, psychical, logical, linguistic, spiritual, ritual, emotional and rational, it is a major conceptual and literary activity,… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
But when it comes to writing the thing that I've sort of been thinking about lately, is why? You know, is it… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Light and the rational forms are locked in combat; light sets them into motion, bends what is straight, makes parallels oval, inscribes… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Mythologies were the earliest dreams of mankind, and in the psychotic delusions of his patients, Jung believed he was encountering those dreams… — Gary Valentine Copy Share Image
Since a rational man's ambition is unlimited, since his pursuit and achievement of values is a lifelong process - and the higher… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Western man has tried for too many centuries to fool himself that he lives in a rational world. No. There's a story… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“But even when a man has offended against his own rational code, I doubt whether a sense of sin is the best… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Margaret Miles offers a stunning treatment of human experience, coaxing humans to leave dualisms behind and embrace our intelligent bodies. In a… — Mary E. Hunt Copy Share Image
Who would you trust right now? Which bank would you trust? Which investment would you trust? Do you really want to put… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Happiness is normally the prime search of every rational human being. One way to derive increasing happiness during the year we have… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
The being we call god is merely a pawn working for a powerful and rational force in some far-off galaxy. This force… — Nick Yee Copy Share Image
For so long, the mainstays of cancer treatment have been chemotherapy and radiation. They're toxic and primitive. We need to look at… — Eva Vertes Copy Share Image
Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice... Man has to be a man-by choice; he… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
For anyone of a rational disposition, fashion is often nearly impossible to fathom. Throughout many periods of history – perhaps most –… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of… — George Boole Copy Share Image
Toast was a pointless invention from the Dark Ages. Toast was an implement of torture that caused all those subjected to it… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It has been said that the myth is a public dream, dreams are private myths. Unfortunately we give our mythic side scant… — Mary Zimmerman Copy Share Image
To stand on the firing parapet and expose yourself to danger; to stand and fight a thousand miles from home when you're… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
Upon this law, depend the natural rights of mankind, the supreme being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Kant's treatments of rational theology and metaphysics were aimed primarily at theoretical questions. His attitude toward the pseudo-sciences of "special metaphysics" in… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Even those who identify themselves as libertarians follow an overtly anti-rationalist philosophy, as even a brief acquaintance with the work of Friedrich… — Philip E. Agre Copy Share Image
I have found on Alpha that those from an essentially enlightened background feel at home with the parts of the course which… — Nicky Gumbel Copy Share Image
It is slightly chilling to realize there are rational, functional people up there employed to spot, nurture, and exploit those down here… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all his evils,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Let it never be forgotten that it is not by means of war that states are rendered fit for the enjoyment of… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
In the midst of a culture that is rationally organized for a vocational workaday life, there is hardly any room for the… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is science that brings us an understanding of the true complexity of natural systems. The insights from the science of ecology… — Jamie Goode Copy Share Image
“But love isn't rational. it's a fucking mess, that's what love is. You can't control the way you feel. Love was a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The claim is also sometimes made that science is as arbitrary or irrational as all other claims to knowledge, or that reason… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Each powerful player, or coalition of players, will make concessions in areas where it has relatively less at stake in exchange for… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
The entire history of humanity is marked by a single inexorable movement - from animal instinct toward rational thought, from inborn behavior… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
However the great successes of science - Galileo's telescopic observations, Newton's law of gravity, etc - all of this great success caused… — George Coyne Copy Share Image
Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
