Inspirational Quote by Marcus Aurelius

“Human beings are rational creatures, in the descriptive though not always the normative sense of the word rational-and thus every impulse we form is…

— Margaret R. Graver

“We humans like to think we are creatures of reason. We aren't. The reality is that we make our decisions first and rationalize them…

— Scott Adams

All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.

— Ludwig von Mises

Everything in nature acts in conformity with law.

— Immanuel Kant

A rational nature admits of nothing but what is serviceable to the rest of mankind.

— Marcus Aurelius

Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational…

— Marcus Aurelius

“The philosophy of rationalism has misunderstood the nature of man, the nature of the social world, and the nature of reason itself. It does…

— Hans J. Morgenthau

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

— Ashley Montagu

Human beings aren't rational animals; we're rationalizing animals who want to appear reasonable to ourselves.

— Elliot Aronson

We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.

— Francis Bacon

“Rational is when an act is performed based on logical grounds.”

— Duop Chak Wuol

Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art…

— Aristotle