The only rational liberty is that which is born of subjection, reared in the fear of God and the love of man. — William Gilmore Simms 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
When you're working on development issues, optimism is not always based on rational analysis, often it is a moral choice. — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
The attack on Social Security is similarly motivated. Social Security is based on the conception is that we should have sympathy for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If I were surrounded by angels who were purely rational and had no inclinations at all, I couldn't do anything for them.… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Sanity is a matter of culture and convention. If it's a crazy culture you live in, then you have to be irrational… — Margaret Millar Copy Share Image
I grew up in Germany during the Nazi period, and I came to this country when I was 15. And then I… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
It's all emotion. But there's nothing wrong with emotion. When we are in love, we are not rational; we are emotional. When… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
I think 'vegan' is a beautiful word. It is more than just a description for our diet. I see it as a… — Philip Wollen Copy Share Image
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks. How often have you been presented with… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Sex criminals. Completely incurable... I suppose you could outlaw religion and these sex crimes would disappear in a generation or two, but… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Environmentalism needs to be absolutely based in objective and verifiable science, it needs to be rational, and it needs to be flexible.… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
We led with our conviction rather than rational, because rational said it was impossible. — Daniel Ek Copy Share Image
Our mania for rational explanations obviously has its roots in our fear of metaphysics, for the two were always hostile brothers. Hence,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The possibility that stock value in aggregate can become irrationally high is contrary to the hard-form "efficient market" theory that many of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“God knew man would evolve. People think some of the Old Testament laws are absurd now because we live in a very… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.' — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
“My belief in Jesus did not seem rational or scientific, and yet there was nothing I could do to separate myself from… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The natural scientists of the previous age knew less than we do and believed they were very close to the goal: we… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Analytic and romantic understanding should be united at a basic level. Reassimilate the passions from which the rational mind fled. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me… — David Hume Copy Share Image