You cannot expect any rational thought from a religious man. He is like a rocking log in water. — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Copy Share Image
Indeed, eventually, random outcomes all revert to the mean, meaning that streaks eventually end. Understanding this is a key part of intelligent… — Barry Ritholtz 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
Now the soul of man is divided into two parts, one of which has a rational principle in itself, and the other,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational. — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I have yet to meet the famous Rational Economic Man theorists describe. Real people have always done inexplicable things from time to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It certainly seems too simple to say what I am going to say, yet it is almost as if you would be… — Seth Copy Share Image
Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins… — Robert Blair Copy Share Image
People in the voting booth are not purely rational creatures any more than they're purely rational creatures outside the voting booth. — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there’s no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky 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
With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
All rational beings have an agency of their own; and according to their own choice they will be saved or damned. — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Listen, I mean that from my knowledge of the world that I see around me, I think that it is much more… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Because those who hold conspiracy theories typically suffer from a crippled epistemology, in accordance with which it is rational to hold such… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
“Conspiracy adepts love story-tellers who want to exorcise their fear, mixing rational and irrational elements to construct a plausible narrative for people… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
However much the various phases of the French Revolution may have modelled themselves on Roman history the early phase on Republican virtue,… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Until the Great Depression, most economists clung to a vision of capitalism as a perfect or nearly perfect system. That vision wasn’t… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Any play that makes an audience think out of the box, that makes connections to life and names our pain and by… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The divine therapy helps us integrate our animal nature with the new possibilities of rational consciousness. — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
There is no way any rational, reasonable person can say that the Bush Administration has been good for America. — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
