“When I met Wittgenstein, I saw that Schlick's warnings were fully justified. But his behavior was not caused by any arrogance. In… — Rudolf Carnap Copy Share Image
More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The spirit of a production-centered, commodity-greedy society is such that only the non-conformist can defend himself sufficiently against it. Those who are… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
You have to have a lot of passion for what you do... because if you don't, any rational person would give up. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith. They feel no obligation to understand… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Yes, what we are doing is probably mad, and probably it is good and necessary all the same. It is not a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational. — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
What you select from, in order to tell your story, is nothing less than everything. What you build up your world from,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Any rational human being is horrified and existentially baffled by the reality of the Holocaust meted out by the Nazis, by the… — Michael Tobias Copy Share Image
From 1918 on, trade unionists were to express from the platforms of their congresses the workers' desire for peace through a rational… — Leon Jouhaux Copy Share Image
Football is an absolutely idiotic pastime by any rational standards. You're running into other people as hard as you can, you get… — Chris Kluwe Copy Share Image
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
As an atheist evolving to agnosticism, and seeking answers to whether or not belief in God is potentially rational, my life was… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings, Pop art,… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Man’s rights can be violated only by the use of physical force. It is only by means of physical force that one… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The auto industry must acknowledge that a rational transportation policy should seek a balance between individual convenience, the efficient use of limited… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize the pursuit of peace is not as… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner. — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
From a rational standpoint, it might be expected that man should be far more willing to express financial confidence in his skills… — Richard Arnold Epstein Copy Share Image
Outside of the marriage context, can you think of any other rational basis, reason, for a state using sexual orientation as a… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
