Rational Quotes

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Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason. — Marcus Aurelius
Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so… — Marcus Aurelius
It is sometimes rational to do what is wrong, and sometimes irrational to do what is right — Dennis Prager
It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational. — Alasdair MacIntyre
...we live in a selectively infantilized culture where twentysomethings are children if they're serving in the Third Infantry Division in Ramadi but grown-ups making rational… — Mark Steyn
The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups, and most of… — H. L. Mencken
All the worth which the human being possesses, all spiritual reality, he possesses only through the State. . . For Truth is the unity of… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
In the face of such overwhelming statistical possibilities hypochondria has always seems to me to be the only rational position to take on life. — John Diamond
I have long been an ardent believer in the science of Homeopathy and I feel happy that it has got now a greater hold in… — Rabindranath Tagore
For in the absence of debate unrestricted utterance leads to the degradation of opinion. By a kind of Greshams law the more rational is overcome… — Walter Lippmann
If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough… — Eric Hoffer
The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're… — J. G. Ballard
My family is out of the ordinary in our physical lifestyle and the day-to-day things that we deal with, but my approach to them is… — Dee Snider
The mind of man, cleansed of secondary and merely temporal concerns, beholds with the radiance of a cleansed mirror a reflection of the rational mind… — Joseph Campbell
Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of… — Mary Wortley Montagu
The major producer of the social chaos, the indeterminacy of thought and values that rational knowledge is supposed to eliminate, is none other than science… — Robert M. Pirsig
The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying… — Garrett Hardin
I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist. — Jim Harrison
I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas it seems to… — Julian Barnes

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