Rational Quotes

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The most rational defender of nature is driven by a passion for wildness that cannot be explained by an appeal to logic. — Eban Goodstein
I am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped: '- to the order of others'.… — Ayn Rand
Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense of… — Ludwig von Mises
The perspective of eternity is not a perspective from a certain place beyond the world, nor the point of view of a transcendent being; rather… — John Rawls
But our ways of learning about the world are strongly influenced by the social preconceptions and biased modes of thinking that each scientist must apply… — Stephen Jay Gould
To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up its… — Anne Lamott
Thank you for calling customer service. If you're calm and rational, press 1. If you're a whiner, press 2. If you're a hot head, press… — Randy Glasbergen
That feelings of love and hate make rational judgments impossible in public affairs, as in private affairs, we can clearly enough see in others, though… — Herbert Spencer
Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with the… — Thomas Huxley
Intellectual men who quickly wolf down whatever nourishment is necessary for their bodies with a kind of disdain, may be very rational and have a… — Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common good.' It is… — Ayn Rand
Each man must live as an end in himself and follow his own rational self-interest. — Ayn Rand
People do not consciously and rationally choose the form of their society. Societies develop through processes of social evolution that are not under rational human… — Theodore Kaczynski
In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd. — John Kenneth Galbraith
TV is the only medium that I've ever been successful with in delivering really emotional messaging and I think as people are trying to work… — Jill McDonald
The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the… — Ayn Rand
A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or… — Ayn Rand
Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice... Man has to be a man-by choice; he has to hold… — Ayn Rand
Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits.… — Thomas Sowell
There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world. — John Maynard Keynes

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