I know that it is a hopeless undertaking to debate about fundamental value judgements. For instance, if someone approves, as a goal,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Faith is not a rational thing, and yet to understand the universe, rationality alone will not give it to us. Our understanding… — John Rhys-Davies 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 void in our society has been produced by the absence of values... we have no widespread belief in the value of… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Obsession is so extreme and so hard to imagine with the rational mind that it has a science-fiction-like quality to it-it's almost… — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Innovation in tech favors the naive and the stubborn. If you are too rational you won't tackle problems that others once failed… — Aaron Levie Copy Share Image
As long as men are free to speak, a small, rational minority will always prevail over an irrational majority. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I used to refer to my drug use as putting the monster in the box. I wanted to be less, so I… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
We live in an epoch where rational reasoning associated with evidence isn't universally accepted and is, in fact, in jeopardy. That worries… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We must be both rational and intellectual, both analytic and imaginative, utilizing both statistics and insight. — Lloyd Copy Share Image
Since the Greeks, Western man has believed that Being, all Being, is intelligible, that there is a reason for everythingand that the… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
Fundamentalists are less concerned to be systematic and rational than to be humble and faithful, accepting God's commandments because they come from… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
Thomas Aquinas states parenthetically, as something entirely obvious, that men are more rational than women. For my part, I see no evidence… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Puritanism carried the ethos of the rational organization of capital and labor. It took over from the Jewish ethic only what was… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The metaphoric mind includes rationality, linearity, and logic - for it created them. But like some children, the rational mind often seems… — Bob Samples Copy Share Image
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.… — George Sand Copy Share Image
The Christian image of God is that of a rational being who believes in human progress, more fully revealing himself as humans… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
A guest should be permitted to graze, as it were, in the pastures of his host's kindness, left even to his own… — Louise Imogen Guiney Copy Share Image
