Rationally Quotes

104 quotes by 93 authors

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
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
I am convinced of the afterlife, independent of theology. If the world is rationally constructed, there must be an afterlife — Kurt GÃ¶del
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
Letâ€™s talk, you and I. Letâ€™s talk about fear. The house is empty as I write this; a cold February rain is falling outside. Itâ€™s… — Stephen King
Anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators are just 'talents.'… — Jack Kerouac
Rationally speaking, blaming one's behavior on alcohol or drugs is like blaming the ladder by which you descended into a pit, or the staircase that… — Graham Joyce
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told… — Martin Gardner
Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the task of inventing… — Reinhold Niebuhr
There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue… — William Booth
We won't dispassionately investigate or rationally debate which drugs do what damage and whether or how much of that damage is the result of criminalization.… — P.J. O'Rourke
Overachievers don't think reasonably, sensibly, or rationally. — John Eliot
Progress in computer science is made with the distribution of revolutionary software systems and the publication of revolutionary books. We don't need a fancy information… — Philip Greenspun
We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists. — Eddie Obeng
He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally.… — Salvatore Quasimodo
Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful. — Andy Hobsbawm
It doesn't have the ability to think rationally this economic model. It thinks like a drug addict: 'Where can I get my next fix?' It… — Naomi Klein
But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor place that can… — Margaret Cavendish
To emotionally accept impending disaster, to attain the gut-level understanding that the power elite will not respond rationally to the devastation of the ecosystem, is… — Chris Hedges
The only systems we can afford to employ are those that rationally serve the planet first, then all humanity. Not out of some woolly, bullshit… — Russell Brand

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