Rationally Quotes

104 Rationally quotes by 93 unique authors

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
I have a reverence for medicine because I hero-worshiped my father [a former doctor], and because I admire doctors, I admire study, empiricism and rational… — Hugh Laurie
Evidently, I don't experience things as rationally as you do. — Buddy Wakefield
We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history. — Neil Shubin
There may be occasions when it is best to behave irrationally, but whether there are should be decided rationally. — I. J. Good
Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to… — Ulrich Beck
Well if done a lot of hard work to try and get people to act rationally, the fact that weve had 15 deviant Muslims, plus… — Lee Kuan Yew
If the process don't transfer, they cannot even be called thinking. They can be called learning, memory, or habit, but not thinking. The purpose of… — Marilyn Jager Adams
So when I appear as a kind of shamanistic figure, or allude to it, I do it to stress my belief in other priorities and… — Joseph Beuys
I am caught in a terrific bind of characterologically and rationally needing to think in the most comprehensive terms possible, forming a continuous system of… — Kenny Smith
Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of… — Allen Tate

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