Rational Quotes

913 quotes by 671 authors

Surely no rational or realistic person will discount the possibility that [during wartime] the United States might suddenly resort to nuclear weapons. Those who retain… — Noam Chomsky
Although reducing human emissions to the atmosphere is undoubtedly of critical importance, as are any and all measures to reduce the human environmental "footprint", the… — Chris Rapley
The rational and peacable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people. — Thomas Jefferson
In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of the ills from… — Leo Tolstoy
Capitalism may even be identical with the restraint, or at least a rational tempering, of this irrational impulse. But capitalism is identical with the restraint,… — Max Weber
We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and… — C.S. Lewis
A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you but your own… — Ayn Rand
While the constitution continues to be read, and its principles known, the states, must, by every rational man, be considered as essential component parts of… — Alexander Hamilton
The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by allowing them a… — Alexander Hamilton
The truth is, after all the declamations we have heard, that the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A… — Alexander Hamilton
A rational army would run away. — Baron de Montesquieu
We led with our conviction rather than rational, because rational said it was impossible. — Daniel Ek
Gratitude is the first sign of a thinking, rational creature. — Solanus Casey
I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that which… — Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet
Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history. One has to put up… — Karl Marx
I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of the man without weaknesses. He… — Lin Yutang
Beneath the seemingly rational exterior of our lives is a fear of insanity. We dare not question the values by which we live or rebel… — Alexander Lowen
Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational. — Warren Buffett
Remember this, take this to heart, live by it, die for it if necessary: that our patriotism is medieval, outworn, obsolete; that the modern patriotism,… — Mark Twain
I can understand your aversion to the use of the term 'religion' to describe an emotional and psychological attitude which shows itself most clearly in… — Albert Einstein

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