There are three means of believing--by inspiration, by reason, and by custom. Christianity, which is the only rational institution, does yet admit… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“As emotions may take apart bit by bit the rational blueprints in our imagination, dreams may expose what is veiled in the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
“They [progressives] are men and women who tend to believe that the human being is perfectible and social progress predictable, and that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Who has forbidden women to engage in private and individual studies? Have they not a rational soul as men do?...I have this… — Juana Inés de la Cruz Copy Share Image
Capitalism is the sorcerer's apprentice: it has summoned up powers which have spun wildly out of control and now threaten to destroy… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men. — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
Discipline in typography is a prime virtue. Individuality must be secured by means that are rational. Distinction needs to be won by… — Stanley Morison Copy Share Image
Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
An aphorism is a mental exercise, psychical, logical, linguistic, spiritual, ritual, emotional and rational, it is a major conceptual and literary activity,… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc... But… — Abraham Robinson Copy Share Image
Do I wish that things were more orderly in Washington and rational and people listened to the best arguments and compromised and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
... immediately call on Congress to pass far-reaching industry regulation like the Firearms Safety and Consumer Protection Act ... [which] would give… — Josh Sugarmann Copy Share Image
She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course; and tried to dwell much on this argument of rational… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
It might not be rational, but I am terrified of getting stuck in an elevator with a bear. — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
To stand well in the estimation of one's country is a happiness that no rational creature can be insensible of. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Rational thinking is an important aspect of human nature, but we have imagination, we have ambition, we have irrational fear, we are… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
“I don't think I'm being harassed by little green stalkers. I don't know what's really going on, but I'd rather try to… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man's only moral commandment is: Thou shalt think. But… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“...you’d be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical.” — Dianna Hardy Copy Share Image
But when it comes to writing the thing that I've sort of been thinking about lately, is why? You know, is it… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
