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Rational Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- When there are rational grounds for an opinion, people are content to set them forth and wait for them to operate. In such cases, people…
- Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the…
- The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love. all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to…
- It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
- There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost…
- A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
- Man is a rational animal. So at least we have been told. Throughout a long life I have searched diligently for evidence in favor of…
- The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders…
- Religion prevents our children from having a rational education; religion prevents us from removing the fundamental causes of war; religion prevents us from teaching the…
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- If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe. — Saint Augustine
- Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to… — Frederic Bastiat
- Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd. — Annie Besant
- Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
- In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a… — Luther Burbank
- Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to… — Benjamin Carson
- In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling… — Benjamin Carson
- I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system. — Noam Chomsky
- Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. — A. R. Ammons
- A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational. — Thomas Aquinas