Rational Quotes

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God is in all things, but so far as God is Divine and so far as He is rational, God is nowhere so properly as… — Meister Eckhart
We cannot discover ourselves without first discovering the universe, the earth, and the imperatives of our own being. Each of these has a creative power… — Thomas Berry
The entire history of humanity is marked by a single inexorable movement - from animal instinct toward rational thought, from inborn behavior toward acquired knowledge.… — Philipp Meyer
The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other… — H. L. Mencken
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to assume that their president, hostile to the principles that formed the… — David Shapiro
All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions are entertained, for… — Charles Brockden Brown
We like democracy because why? The pathologies of the U.S. version are so obvious in the aftermath of the latest averted crisis that we need… — Noah Feldman
People take it for granted that the physical world is both ordered and intelligible. The underlying order in nature - the laws of physics -… — Paul Davies
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced… — A. R. Ammons
Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined sentiments. The basic… — James Burnham
I find it hard to understand why those who demand Unitary Education by the State do not also demand a Unitary Press by the State...… — Frederic Bastiat
Economists who adhere to rational-expectations models of the world will never admit it, but a lot of what happens in markets is driven by pure… — Robert J. Shiller
Man is said to be a rational creature; but should it not rather be said, that man is a creature capable of being rational, as… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
The neural processes underlying that which we call creativity have nothing to do with rationality. That is to say, if we look at how the… — Rodolfo Llinas
A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained. It requires some… — P T Barnum
When I was a very young author, I knew I needed to build myself a tower outside of Europe. Like when you're a hunter, and… — Henning Mankell
...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures. — Reinhold Niebuhr
The rational herdsman concludes that the only sensible course for him to pursue is to add another animal to his herd. And another; and another… — Garrett Hardin
Western civilisation needs a complete overhaul or it will fall apart one day or another. It has realised the most complete perversion of any rational… — Julius Evola
The Holy Grail of universal coverage in the United States may remain out of reach unless, through rational collective action overriding some individual self-interest, we… — Donald Berwick

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