If 'freedom' means, first of all, the responsibility of every individual for the rational determination of his own personal, professional and social… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Historians are presumed to be unable to "do psychology," which is "mystical" anyway, so they are forced to accept the most "rational"… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
Respect for the dignity of others includes treating them as rational creatures capable of being persuadad by rational argument, even in the… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document? We now know pretty well where the various… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it—that no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Human emotion isn't neatly ordered and rational and easily predictable. — Hannah Fry 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
Jurors have found, again and again, and at critical moments, according to what is their sense of the rational and just. If… — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
I am a secularist in the Gandhian sense of the word, not the Nehruvian one. Nehru thought religion was an antique superstition… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Most writers I know move back and forth between the rational and the intuitive, though there are some who approach writing very… — Peter Turchi Copy Share Image
We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
You cannot 'rationalize' what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called 'truthization.' There is no way to… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
The belief that value judgments are not subject, in the last analysis, to rational control, encourages the inclination to make irresponsible assertions… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
If you just try to make rational arguments about why people should care about Congo and how 5 million people have died,… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
We cannot fight against collectivism, unless we fight against its moral base: altruism. We cannot fight against altruism, unless we fight against… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The Federal Reserve is the overlord of the money supply. If these two are not steering in the same direction, they can… — Wright Patman Copy Share Image
There is one unmistakable lesson in American history; a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
From whence it is obvious to conclude that, since our Faculties are not fitted to penetrate into the internal Fabrick and real… — John Locke Copy Share Image
There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
