I think moral philosophy is speculation on how we ought to live together done by people who have very little clue how… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I was raised Catholic. But if someone says I was raised in some religion, that's insufficient information to actually know what was… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
At the root of all the varied manifestations of dancing, lies the common impulse to resort to movement to externalize emotional states… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the… — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
It is sometimes rational to do what is wrong, and sometimes irrational to do what is right — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
life is of no value but as it brings gratifications. among the most valuable of these is rational society. it informs the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I believe, or sense, that the universe has not been constructed from a purely mechanical, logical, rational point of view, but there… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Man, the cutting edge of terrestrial life, has no rational alternative but to expand the environmental and resource base beyond Earth. — Krafft Arnold Ehricke Copy Share Image
Everything rational and sensible abandons me when I try to throw out photographs. Time and time again, I hold one over a… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society. — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
“One does not learn anything except by believing something, and -- conversely -- if one doubts everything one learns nothing. On the… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound; and that supremely real and rational… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named… — Morrie Schwartz Copy Share Image
There is no author or legislator of the moral law. It is simply valid in itself in the nature or essence of… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
What is the use of aesthetics if they can neither teach how to produce beauty nor how to appreciate it in good… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If we decide rightly what to do, or use a correct procedure for making such decisions, that has to be because the… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational… — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
What did it matter to me? Did I think that by making you rational about one thing, I could make you rational… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image