I've always wanted to make the world a more rational place. I'm still working on it. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational, — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
You cannot be a rational subject without veto-control on the level of mental action. — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, most gun control advocates are not really interested in rational debate, and their political games simply send Alice chasing white rabbits… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The rational is apprehended through the intellect, however, the intellect is not found in the region of the rational; the intellect is… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
Remember, taboos are just a map of what a society feels it's acceptable to be neurotic about. Taboos aren't rational. — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
A philosopher may deplore the eternal discords of the human race, but he will confess, that the desire of spoil is a… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Faith is blind if rejects reason. It is in fact a rational function, a process of the cultivation of wisdom that begins… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
Man, considered not merely as an organized being, but as a rational agent and a member of society, is perhaps the most… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
I can understand your aversion to the use of the term 'religion' to describe an emotional and psychological attitude which shows itself… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We can live a more relaxed life. We can accept that our decisions aren't rational, that we are always conditioned by society;… — Renata Salecl Copy Share Image
Psychologically speaking, the rational, healthy response to climate change is to say to oneself, "What can I do about this?" But that… — Margaret D. Klein Copy Share Image
Physicists use 'God' as a metaphor more often than other scientists-- especially in popular writing, but in the technical literature as well.… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
One of the peculiarities of economics is that it still rests on a behavioral assumption-rational utility maximization-that has long since been rejected… — Lester Thurow 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
Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Mythologies were the earliest dreams of mankind, and in the psychotic delusions of his patients, Jung believed he was encountering those dreams… — Gary Valentine Copy Share Image
“Western man has tried for too many centuries to fool himself that he lives in a rational world. No. There's a story… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
In short, I didn't become a Christian because God promised I would have an even happier life than I had as an… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
For you deal here above all with human life, and human life is sacred; no one may dare make an attempt upon… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
So how does one go about proving something like this? It's not like being a lawyer, where the goal is to persuade… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
“No matter how high are one's estimates of human stupidity, one is repeatedly and recurrently startled by the fact that: a) people… — Carlo M. Cipolla Copy Share Image
And yet my, not only my faith, but my experience has led me to believe that the world is not a construction… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
In times of crisis human beings don't have it in them to be rational. — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind. — Richard Gere 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
Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally. — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
The real is the rational and the rational is the real. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
