What the activity of this disposition of ours means in the evolution of the world, we do not know. Nor can we… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
We could solve all our problems if only we were the efficient, rational human beings of standard economic theory and had politicians… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title. — John Locke Copy Share Image
I have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug;… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
The only rational way of educating is to be an example. If one can't help it, a warning example. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Whether it’s a symphony or a coal mine, all work is an act of creating and comes from the same source: from… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Sociotropic voters with biased economic beliefs are more likely to produce severe political failures than are selfish voters with rational expectations. — Bryan Caplan Copy Share Image
What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according… — Elsie de Wolfe Copy Share Image
Becoming fully rational is not enough anymore; evidently it can lead to distortions of all the great human possibilities. — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The necessary precondition for the birth of science as we know it is, it would seem, the diffusion through society of the… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
Our garden was debated territory between five local cats, and we'd heard that the best way to keep other cats out of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all. — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
As a profession, freelance writing is notoriously insecure. That's the first argument in its favor. For many reasons, a few of them… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The reader must come armed , in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Every single human civilization has failed over time, and my belief is that it's due to a lack of rational empathy, of… — Chris Kluwe Copy Share Image
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all. — Harry Seidler Copy Share Image
Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Religious ideas and practices take root not because they are promoted by forceful theologians, nor because they can be shown to have… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
You cannot control faeries. Can. Not. They aren't logical or rational. They don't obey the same laws (physical, social, emotional, traffic -… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
