Rational Quotes

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Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with… — Joseph Wood Krutch
But I still read Shaw on a regular basis. What I love is the nakedness of the polemic and the irresistible good humour. For me,… — Tony Kushner
Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. — R. D. Laing
Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their comfort and enjoyment.… — Eric Liu
I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law. — Ken Livingstone
I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel. — Hilary Mantel
While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser. — Karl Marx
Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words. — Vladimir Nabokov
In a dream it's typical not to be rational. — John Forbes Nash
Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather… — Joyce Carol Oates
The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way. — Joyce Carol Oates
Everything rational and sensible abandons me when I try to throw out photographs. Time and time again, I hold one over a wastebasket, and then… — Susan Orlean
The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally. — Steven Pinker
Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose… — John Podhoretz
No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude. — Karl Popper
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth. — Ayn Rand
A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. — Salman Rushdie
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. — Bertrand Russell
The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others. — George Santayana

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