Rational Quotes

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There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational. — Albert Ellis
The internet was supposed to make this whole business of job searching rational and simple. You could post your resume and companies would search them… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world. — Albert Ellis
I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior… — Albert Ellis
Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place. — Brian Eno
Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity. — Jonathan Safran Foer
There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming, it systematically forces… — Jonathan Safran Foer
To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy. — Julia Ward Howe
Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they… — William Ralph Inge
It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. — Thomas Huxley
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else. — Lee Iacocca
Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science. — Muhammad Iqbal
In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command… — Muhammad Iqbal
Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by… — William James
I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman… — Thomas Jefferson
When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left side of the… — Alejandro Jodorowsky
No one ever pretended that shopping for anything is a rational experience. If it were, would there be Fluffernutter? Laceless sneakers? Porkpie hats? Would the… — Jeffrey Kluger
What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills… — Jeffrey Kluger
I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind… — Rem Koolhaas

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