Rational Quotes

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I am continually calming the restless scanning of my rational mind in order to perceive the finer energies that enable me to unitively merge with… — Ken Keyes Jr.
I think the more rational explanation is that the excision of a five-to-six-foot leech from the surface of a human body means that that body… — Dave Sim
I have a reverence for medicine because I hero-worshiped my father [a former doctor], and because I admire doctors, I admire study, empiricism and rational… — Hugh Laurie
I think 'vegan' is a beautiful word. It is more than just a description for our diet. I see it as a visible template for… — Philip Wollen
Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world. — Plato
Individualism regards man-every man-as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a… — Ayn Rand
Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being… — Marcus Aurelius
We should respect each other as rational beings by trying to achieve our goals through reason and persuasion rather than threats and coercion. — Ron Paul
Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document? We now know pretty well where the various books came from,… — Clarence Darrow
Dub music is like a long echo delay, looping through time...turning the rational musical order into an ocean of sensation. — David Toop
I think women are really vicious in the work place, they're really jealous, really competitive. Women are emotional, they cry in toilets. The sisterhood only… — Katie Hopkins
In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice:… — Oscar Wilde
Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either cogent demonstration or… — Jacques Maritain
One of the essential differences between the liberal and conservative worldview is that the liberals believe in rationality, whereas conservative believe that human events are… — Thom Hartmann
There is no effective rational answer to the challenge: "But give me a reason why I should love someone who does not deserve it." Love… — Peter Kreeft
Fear-bola attacks the part of the brain responsible for rational thinking. It starts with a low-grade concern about the two health care workers diagnosed with… — Mel Robbins
Empathy requires something extremely difficult: accepting the fact that we are not and never will be in the other person's shoes. There's no rational, universal… — Seth Godin
Man is in need if a symbolical life- badly in need. We only live banal, ordinary, rational or irrational things- but we have no symbolic… — Carl Jung
What kind of expression is this - "punishing Israel"? Are we a vassal state of yours? Are we a banana republic? Are we youths of… — Menachem Begin
At the moment our rational mind stops, hits against a wall ... something else happens. And a bigger mind, like a pearl, rolls in a… — Natalie Goldberg

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