Rational Quote by Emmanuel Levinas Download Open image “What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?” — Emmanuel Levinas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Rational Speak
We're living in interesting times, where people seem to be able to say things which are contrary to what you would call rationalism. — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Talk about rationality can get very confusing unless the things with which rationality deals are also included. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Rationalism is the idea that we can ever understand anything about the state of being. It's a deathtrip. It always has been. . .… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. On this conviction the plain man like the philosopher takes his stand,and from… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
A miracle entails a degree of irrationality-not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it. — Emmanuel Levinas Copy Share Image
Memory as an inversion of historical time is the essence of interiority. — Emmanuel Levinas Copy Share Image
I will say this quite plainly, what truly human is -and don't be afraid of this word- love. And I mean it even with… — Emmanuel Levinas Copy Share Image
“A fine risk is always something to be taken in philosophy. ... Philosophy thus arouses a drama between philosophers and an intersubjective movement which does not resemble the dialogue of teamworkers in science, nor even the Platonic dialogue which is the reminiscence of a drama rather than a drama itself. It is sketched out in a different structure; empirically it… — Emmanuel Levinas Copy Share
“This world, in which reason is more and more at home, is not habitable. It is hard and cold like those depots in which are piled up goods that cannot satisfy: neither clothe those who are naked, nor feed those who are hungry; it is as impersonal as factory hangars and industrial cities in which manufactured things remain abstract, true… — Emmanuel Lévinas Copy Share
Of course we do not live in order to eat, but it is not really true to say that we eat in order to… — Emmanuel Levinas Copy Share Image
“The true life is absent.' But we are in the world. Metaphysics arises and is maintained in this alibi.” — Emmanuel Lévinas Copy Share Image
Love remains a relation with the Other that turns into need, transcendent exteriority of the other, of the beloved. But love goes beyond the… — Emmanuel Levinas Copy Share Image
“La relación con lo Otro me pone en cuestión, me vacía de mí mismo y no deja de vaciarme, descubriéndome en tal modo con… — Emmanuel Levinas Copy Share Image
“To approach the Other in conversation is to welcome his expression, in which at each instant he overflows the idea a thought would carry… — Emmanuel Levinas Copy Share Image
“the "small goodness" from one person to his fellowman is lost and deformed as soon as it seeks organization and universality and system, as… — Emmanuel Levinas Copy Share Image
Grandma, please. It’s okay. Dad’s doing a great job. I give him kudos for at least being calm and rational, and not losing his… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human… — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Cheshvan starts tonight," Rixon said, "What are you doing arsing around in a graveyard?" "Thinking." "Thinking?" "A process by which I use my brain… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“Other folk thought the Rage was simple bloodlust, a berserk savagery that neither knew nor cared what its target was, and so it was when it struck without warning. But when a hradani gave himself to it knowingly, it was as cold as it was hot, as rational as it was lethal. To embrace the Rage was to embrace a… — David Weber Copy Share
For the utilitarian, there is a fact of the matter about the good (the general happiness, or whatever conception of the good the utilitarian… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
We know from this book entitled... What is it? Surrendered? Succumbed? I can never remember the title perform. And we learn from this book that 24 hours after the election, the Hillary Clinton campaign decided to blame their defeat on the Russians colluding with Trump to affect the outcome of the election. And that allegation ends up being taken so… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share
... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose,… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
The first koan do not have rational answers. They are techniques devised over the millennia for triggering an actual experience. — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
It's encouraging to watch bipartisan leaders from different states recognize the need for fair and rational legislation focused on creating second chances for those… — Michael G. Rubin Copy Share Image
Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but damaging to… — Randy Schekman Copy Share Image
People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think. — Peter Watts Copy Share Image