Desire Quote by Ayn Rand

A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.

— Bertrand Russell

Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.

— Charles Lindbergh

Man is many things, but he is not rational.

— Oscar Wilde

Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.

— Anatole France

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

— Thomas Aquinas

There do exist enquiring minds, which long for the truth of the heart, seek it, strive to solve the problems set by life, try…

— G. I. Gurdjieff

A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he…

— Walter Lippmann

“Being the rational animal, man must be capable of thinking if he really wants to. Still, it may be that man wants to think,…

— Martin Heidegger

“No man need fear that by making himself rational he will make his life dull. On the contrary, since rationality consists in the main…

— Bertrand Russell

Man is a conscious, rational thinker and a supra-conscious creator genius.

— Pitirim Sorokin

Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not…

— Ai Weiwei

The rational mind of man is a shallow thing, a shore upon a continent of the irrational, wherein thin colonies of reason have settled…

— Wilford O Cross