Rational Quotes

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My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as… — Mary Wollstonecraft
With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works. — Jane Austen
Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. Instead, a balance - a teaming up of… — David Eagleman
Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful, rich, downtrodden, gentle,… — Richard Bach
And if a minister shall usurp the supreme and absolute govern ment of America, and set up his instructions as laws in the colonies, and… — Samuel Adams
Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice. — Thomas Jefferson
The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written her moral laws,… — Thomas Jefferson
Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease… — Sigmund Freud
When the rational mind is shut off, we have the possibility of intuition. — Viola Spolin
When even the dictators of today appeal to reason, they mean that they possess the most tanks. They were rational enough to build them; others… — Max Horkheimer
The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art. — Theodor Adorno
In hell, sinners shall forever lay all the blame on their own wills. Hell is a rational torment by conscience. — Richard Baxter
Animal liberationists do not separate out the human animal, so there is no rational basis for saying that a human being has special rights. A… — Ingrid Newkirk
All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle. This principle (logos, the hidden harmony behind all change)… — Heraclitus
I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational. — Larry Niven
When you have half of Caironese in slums, when you don't have clean water, when you don't have a sewer system, when you don't have… — Mohamed ElBaradei
The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it… — Johannes Kepler
There are sacred moments in life when we experience in rational and very direct ways that separation, the boundary between ourselves and other people and… — Catherine Ponder
For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for… — Nathaniel Branden
Let it never be forgotten that it is not by means of war that states are rendered fit for the enjoyment of constitutional freedom; on… — Richard Cobden

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