Rationally Quotes

104 quotes by 95 authors

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to… — Marcus Aurelius
Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks. — Mary Wollstonecraft
We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this… — Robert Dale Owen
I decided that life rationally considered seemed pointless and futile, but it is still interesting in a variety of ways, including the study of science.… — Robert S. Mulliken
Climate alarmists believe in their own omnipotency, in knowing better than millions of rationally behaving men and women what is right or wrong, in the… — Vaclav Klaus
Human life as a whole is not inundated by technique. It has room for activities that are not rationally or systematically ordered. But the collision… — Jacques Ellul
Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood. — Albert Einstein
The thing that keeps you scrambling over the rocks, risking snakes, and swatting at the flies is the view. It is only your enjoyment of… — Robert Adams
But for the Jews this moral-spiritual issue raises the same societal problem it does for the Greeks: how can a man have the "right" to… — Kenny Smith
The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men. — Reinhold Niebuhr
I know that it is a hopeless undertaking to debate about fundamental value judgements. For instance, if someone approves, as a goal, the extirpation of… — Albert Einstein
In places like universities, where everyone talks too rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear. — Joseph Beuys
Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge. — Marc Bloch
Cut through the ridicule and search for factual information in most of the skeptical commentary and one is usually left with nothing. This is not… — Bernard Haisch
But courage in fighting is by no means the only form, nor perhaps even the most important. There is courage in facing poverty, courage in… — Bertrand Russell
In daily life, reality gives us material incentives to restrain our irrationality. But what incentive do we have to think rationally about politics? — Bryan Caplan
When I can relax, and be close to the transcendental core of me, then I may behave in strange and impulsive ways in the relationship,… — Carl Rogers
What gives life meaning is a form of rebellion, rebellion against reason, an insistence on believing passionately what we cannot believe rationally. The meaning of… — Robert C. Solomon
In order to succeed, you have to live dangerously.. as long as the danger is rationally accepted and as long as the rewards far outweigh… — Sumner Redstone

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