Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution is, as far as possible, to avoid conscious rational decisions and… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Only the heart knows the correct answer. Most people think the heart is mushy and sentimental. But it's not. The heart is… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The great scientific achievements are research programmes which can be evaluated in terms of progressive and degenerative problemshifts; and scientific revolutions consist… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
There was an idea that God created man different from other animals, because man was rational and animals had drives and instincts.… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The argument from design is ultimately an appeal to miraculous causes, i.e., causes that do not, and cannot, occur in the natural… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
What reason is there for believing that a high death rate, in itself, is undesirable? To my knowledge none whatever. The plain… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is no logical basis to support the theory that plants feel pain. The dubious possibility that they might, however, is no… — Joanne Stepaniak Copy Share Image
To me, poetry is a rational act. I never write a poem if I'm not sure what I am going to say… — Luljeta Lleshanaku Copy Share Image
It was the kind of terrified look that reminds you that no matter how rational or grown up a person might seem,… — Ann M. Martin Copy Share Image
The knowledge exists by which universal happiness can be secured; the chief obstacle to its utilization for that purpose is the teaching… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Rational order in the technological world can be as fascinating as the fetishes of a Congo witch-doctor - scientific phenomena become significant… — Eduardo Paolozzi Copy Share Image
But now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. The world… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“Beliefs are personal, but universal truths are above that. For example, the surface temperature of the sun is around 5,505 degrees Celsius… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
As I'm writing, I start to see connections, and themes I didn't see, and that sparks other things. So then I go… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
All doctrines relating to the creation of the world, the government of man by superior beings, and his destiny after death, are… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
There's no rational reason why opera should exist. It's expensive, time consuming. Yet in some shape or other it has always existed. — Jake Heggie Copy Share Image
Every sane person has to find every day some manner of accommodating the impossible, some way of covering up for the failures… — Robert Boswell Copy Share Image
You'll think this is a bit silly, but I'm a bit--well, I have a thing about birds." "What, a phobia?" "Sort of."… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones. — Bill Forsyth Copy Share Image
There are a zillion possibilities that you can do on a piece of paper; there is no rational way to choose. So… — Gabrielle Bell Copy Share Image
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