In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
A large plural society cannot be governed without recognizing that, transcending its plural interests, there is a rational order with a superior… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
They [human beings] are unwilling to gamble that God made those people who are skilled at rational argumentation uniquely virtuous. They protect… — James G. March Copy Share Image
The soul has two parts, one rational and the other irrational. Let us now similarly divide the rational part, and let it… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The modern world needs people with a complex identity who are intellectually autonomous and prepared to cope with uncertainty; who are able… — Robert J. Havighurst Copy Share Image
First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker. — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
If you were a sane woman, I would, of course, behave in a more rational fashion. Since you are a lunatic, however,… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing,… — Terry Eagleton 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
Intellectual men who quickly wolf down whatever nourishment is necessary for their bodies with a kind of disdain, may be very rational… — Charles-Augustin de Coulomb Copy Share Image
“Annie clouded up. For a second, he thought she was going to erupt, and flinched. She saw that...and got control of herself… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
....Man's struggle to be rational about himself, about his relationship to his own society and to other peoples and nations involves a… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention—distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Unions are for 'collective bargaining,' not individual bargaining. It follows that most of the achievements of a union, even if they were… — Mancur Olson Copy Share Image
George Bush and John Ashcroft were religious in a scary way, but the rational among us could always take heart that, deep… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“We fetch fire and water, run about all day among the shops and markets, and get our clothes and shoes made and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I was in favour of the death penalty, and disposed to regard abolitionists as people whose hearts were bigger than their heads.… — Ernest Gowers Copy Share Image
Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Have you ever known an alcoholic, a cigarette smoker, or a heroin user to be rational when it came to alcohol, cigarettes,… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
There are so many different kinds of motivation for investing or giving or parting with your money in whatever other way, and… — Jessica Jackley Copy Share Image
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