Rational Quote by William S. Burroughs Download Open image “We should exterminate all rational thought.” — William S. Burroughs ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Philosophy of Mind Rational Rational thought Should
We are now so far advanced in our denial of evil that we want to rationalise it away. — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Becoming fully rational is not enough anymore; evidently it can lead to distortions of all the great human possibilities. — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
Given the imperfections of our society and the apparent downward spiral of spiritual and moral values in recent years, thinking has become a grave… — M Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“Control never be a means to any practical end. It can never be a means to anything but more control… Like punk.” — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Well as, one judge said to the other, 'Be just and if you can't be just be arbitrary.' Regret cannot observe customary obscenities.” — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.' — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
For seven days she lay in bed looking sullenly at the ceiling as though resenting the death she had cultivated for so many years.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not .… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any fucking thing. No Holy Grail, No Final Satori, no solution. Just conflict. Only thing… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“For John Dillinger In hope he is still alive Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1986 In hope he is still alive Thanks for the wild… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk? His whole abdomen would move up and down, you dig,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks. — William S. Burroughs 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… — David Weber Copy Share Image
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… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
... 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
