Rationally Quotes
104 Rationally quotes by 93 unique authors
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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
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Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood.
— Albert Einstein
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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
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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
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The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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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
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In places like universities, where everyone talks too rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear.
— Joseph Beuys
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Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.
— Marc Bloch
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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People do not consciously and rationally choose the form of their society. Societies develop through processes of social evolution that are not under rational human…
— Theodore Kaczynski
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In the midst of a culture that is rationally organized for a vocational workaday life, there is hardly any room for the cultivation of acosmic…
— Max Weber
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I am convinced of the afterlife, independent of theology. If the world is rationally constructed, there must be an afterlife
— Kurt Gödel
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When a planner speaks of implementing goals rationally, he implies that it is possible to demonstrate logically and experimentally the relationship between the proposed means…
— Unknown Author
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Let’s talk, you and I. Let’s talk about fear. The house is empty as I write this; a cold February rain is falling outside. It’s…
— Stephen King
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