Rational Quotes

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My argument has always been that nature has a master plan pushing every species toward procreation and that it is our right and even obligation… — Camille Paglia
It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I… — Carl Jung
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be… — Jane Austen
Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we… — Saint Augustine
Man is many things, but he is not rational. — Oscar Wilde
The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for the future. The… — Brennan Manning
I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he… — Oscar Wilde
The reader must come armed , in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the text alone. In… — Neil Postman
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to… — Robert A. Heinlein
Lovers are rarely the most rational beings in creation... — Susanna Clarke
The rational approach start from the idea that everything is explainable and that mystery is in some sense the enemy. This means that it prefers… — Jeremy Narby
And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational… — Jane Austen
Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step… — Salvador Dali
It was the kind of terrified look that reminds you that no matter how rational or grown up a person might seem, some part of… — Ann M. Martin
A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty of others. — Ayn Rand
Every fairy tale, it seems, concludes with the bland phrase "happily ever after." Yet every couple I have ever known would agree that nothing about… — Catherine Gilbert Murdock
The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human conventionâ€”distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims and by the… — Sam Harris
What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to… — Viktor E. Frankl
A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires. — Bertrand Russell
Yes, what we are doing is probably mad, and probably it is good and necessary all the same. It is not a good thing when… — Hermann Hesse

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