Able Quote by Michael Joseph Oakeshott

“Human beings are stuck in a Midas-like predicament: we can't directly experience the true texture of reality because everything we touch turns to matter.”

— Nick Herbert

“Legendary King Midas never knew the feel of silk or a human hand after everything he touched turned to gold. Humans are stuck in…

— Nick Herbert

Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.

— Andy Goldsworthy

What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?

— Emmanuel Levinas

Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Becoming fully rational is not enough anymore; evidently it can lead to distortions of all the great human possibilities.

— Thomas Keating

“Baptize yourself with the flow of rational thinking and the world is bound to become rational.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Man is many things, but he is not rational.

— Oscar Wilde

“Rationality is simply mysticism misunderstood.”

— Peter Kingsley

Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

— John Forbes Nash

The mind's ability to rationalize it's own shortcomings is unlimited; I am no exception.

— Robert A. Heinlein

One aspect of this is that rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

— John Nash