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Rational Quotes by Saint Augustine
- If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
- 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…
- To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.
- All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure…
- To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.
More Rational Quotes
- There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood
- In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling… — Benjamin Carson
- All changes, even positive ones, are scary. Attempts to reach goals through radical or revolutionary means often fail because they heighten fear.… — Robert D. Maurer
- Rational thinking is an important aspect of human nature, but we have imagination, we have ambition, we have irrational fear, we are… — Ha-Joon Chang
- Lawyers have a way of seeing that sets them apart from the rest of us. In some way this special vision makes… — Thane Rosenbaum
- We have already shown that there is no such thing as free will. That's a will-o'-the-wisp. You never make choices without reasons,… — John Gerstner