Rational Quotes

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In the midst of a culture that is rationally organized for a vocational workaday life, there is hardly any room for the cultivation of acosmic… — Max Weber
What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French. — Richard Rorty
At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our… — William O. Douglas
I am perfectly convinced that I have both seen, and heard in a manner which should make unbelief impossible, things called spiritual which cannot be… — Augustus De Morgan
The genuine values in America arose from rational thought and breaking with tradition, not from blind allegiance to dirt and cloth. — Stefan Molyneux
But now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. The world maintains that no… — Knut Hamsun
Theology is a serious quest for the true knowledge of God, undertaken in response to His self-revelation, illumined by Christian tradition, manifesting a rational inner… — John Stott
Today's environment is beginning to threaten today's organizations, finding them seriously deficient in their nervous system design... The degree of coordination, perception, rational adaptation, etc.,… — Douglas Engelbart
To go out of your mind once a day is tremendously important, because by going out of your mind you come to your senses. And… — Alan Watts
There was only one catch and that was Catch22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real… — Joseph Heller
When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to. — George Soros
What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason or perhaps the faculty of discourse? But a full-grown… — Jeremy Bentham
Listen, I mean that from my knowledge of the world that I see around me, I think that it is much more likely that the… — Richard P. Feynman
When one analyzes the pre-conscious step to concepts, one always finds ideas which consist of 'symbolic images.' The first step to thinking is a painted… — Wolfgang Pauli
If you attach your mind to any ideology, you're going to be on a road, and that road may or may not lead you in… — Joe Rogan
I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as to who weâ€™re dealing with, and that… — Billy Wilder
It is impossible for any rational creature to be happy without acting all for God. God Himself could not make him happy any other way...… — David Brainerd
It is remarkable that God began this work among the Indians at a time when I had the least hope, and to my apprehension the… — David Brainerd
It is part of the pholosophic dullness of our time that there are millions of rational monsters walking about on their hind legs, observing the… — Martin Gardner
The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility — Jonathan Mayhew

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