Rational Quotes

913 quotes by 671 authors

Happiness is normally the prime search of every rational human being. One way to derive increasing happiness during the year we have just entered is… — B. C. Forbes
The Mother's knowledge of unity, her powers of sensitivity, humility, and balance, and her infinite respect for the miracle of all life have now to… — Andrew Harvey
Is management rational? — Warren Buffett
Religions are tough. Either they make no contentions which are subject to disproof or they quickly redesign doctrine after disproof. ... near the core of… — Carl Sagan
The belief that rational and quantifiable disciplines such as science can be used to perfect human society is no less absurd than a belief in… — Chris Hedges
It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure… — ZoÃ« Heller
Upon this law, depend the natural rights of mankind, the supreme being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving and beatifying that… — Alexander Hamilton
These are no ordinary claims; and it seems hardly possible for a rational being to regard them with even a subdued interest; much less to… — Simon Greenleaf
The will to believe chases out the rational mind, whenever and wherever the two come into conflict. — Philip K. Dick
Human beings are born and begin their evolution through the great spiral of consciousness, moving from archaic to magic to mythic to rational to perhaps… — Ken Wilber
I want to say, and this is very important: at the end we lucked out. It was luck that prevented nuclear war. We came that… — Robert McNamara
If we suddenly plant our foot, and say, - I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch any food or fabric which I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational. — John Milton
To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the… — Ayn Rand
I just don't understand why the idea of the universe creating itself is a rational one — Dennis Prager
Light and the rational forms are locked in combat; light sets them into motion, bends what is straight, makes parallels oval, inscribes circles in the… — Paul Klee
A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come. — Ayn Rand
Humans alone are created as rational beings in the image of God, capable of a relationship with God and given by him the capacity to… — John Lennox
Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful. — Oscar Niemeyer
A person is an individual substance of a rational nature. — Boethius

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