Rational Quotes

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If 'freedom' means, first of all, the responsibility of every individual for the rational determination of his own personal, professional and social existence, then there… — Wilhelm Reich
A compassionate willingess is required - as is the courage to live before the fact, before the understanding, before any rational support or certainty, to… — Clark Moustakas
Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile. — Carter Heyward
Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
I'm a very rational person but I pray every day. — Emmy Rossum
It is only the belief and the confidence we have in a God why man is able to understand his own social institutions, and move… — Marcus Garvey
To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the… — Walter Cronkite
The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the… — Luis Barragan
You have to have a lot of passion for what you do... because if you don't, any rational person would give up. — Steve Jobs
All rational beings have an agency of their own; and according to their own choice they will be saved or damned. — Brigham Young
Without passion, any rational person would give up! — Steve Jobs
Americans are cultured from their earliest years to be either one-sided douloi or one-sided banausoi, i.e. either they cannot think abstractively/conceptually/orchestrally or else they can… — Kenny Smith
It is not intuitive ease I am after, but rather a point of view which is sufficiently definite to clear up some difficulties, and to… — Karl Popper
Whenever I was confronted in the schoolyard, I found some way to avoid the fight. I ran for it. I backed down. Psychologically and emotionally,… — Jonathan Gottschall
The primary mode of experiencing images is non-verbal... but once it's brought out into the light of the day, what's understood by the subconscious intuitive… — John Paul Caponigro
Mankind has failed miserably in its effort to devise a rational system of government. [...] The art of government is the exclusive possession of quacks… — H. L. Mencken
It is commonly said that if rational argument is so seldom the cause of conviction, philosophical apologists must largely be wasting their shot. The premise… — Austin Farrer
Justice is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake the character of men as you cannot fake the character of nature, that you… — John Galt
The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe… — Natalie Jeremijenko
To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason. — Marcus Aurelius

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