Rational Quotes
The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice
There is never a rational reason for a man to rejoice that a certain pretty girl exists and that he has found her. The experience, however, is universal.
At the moment our rational mind stops, hits against a wall ... something else happens. And a bigger mind, like a pearl, rolls in a silver bowl.
The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.
Why did the Germans and Japanese keep fighting after 1943 when every rational hope of victory had disappeared?
Reality and truth are not products of rational or linear thinking. They are derived from absolute wisdom as it manifests itself spontaneously, coming from the light of the Spirit.
The US is to an unusual extent a business-run society, where short-term concerns of profit and market share displace rational planning.
Democracy, in any rational form, also imposes conditions on majority rule. That's what the Bill of Rights is about, for example.
Destruction of the environment is not only rational; it's exactly what you're taught to do in college.
I don't think all thinking is a kind of rational structure. But I don't think it is correct to identify the rational-nonrational dichotomy with the linguistic-nonlinguistic dichotomy.
What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more rational means of communication.
Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe.
I'm all for rational enjoyment, and so forth, but I think a fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan
How is it possible for someone who believes that the world was created in six days to have a rational conversation with me, who doesnt believe that, about other possibilities?
Even the charities I give to are related to things that touch my life, like the Special Olympics. I'm not fully rational; I'm swayed by my biases and my emotions.
In some ways we live in a world where things appear to be very logical, very rational, and mechanical aspects of our world are rather scientific and rather straightforward.
Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning.
Most writers I know move back and forth between the rational and the intuitive, though there are some who approach writing very rationally, and others who claim not to think their work through.
Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping.
Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.
Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.
The more complex the world situation becomes, the more scientific and rational analysis you have to have, the less you can do with simple good will and sentiment.
...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures.
Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.
Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.
The core of the Marxist critique of capitalism is that although the individual capitalist is rational (as liberals assume), the capitalist system itself is irrational.
The link between rational individual behavior and collectively desirable outcomes is extremely tenuous.
Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings.
The major producer of the social chaos, the indeterminacy of thought and values that rational knowledge is supposed to eliminate, is none other than science itself.
Analytic and romantic understanding should be united at a basic level. Reassimilate the passions from which the rational mind fled.
Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.
We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures
When you are motivating people to do amazing things, you have to win over both their rational side and their emotive side.
What looks like resistance in many cases is rational responses to incentives and ingrained resource-allocation processes.
I should have thought of this years ago. But that was the problem with being sane. Sane people played by the rules. They looked for rational explanations and solutions in an insane universe.
Every night on my show, The Colbert Report, I speak straight from the gut, okay? I give people the truth, unfiltered by rational argument. I call it "The No Fact Zone.
No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history.
What I'm saying is that I'm trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that's neveer a good sign.
Nima Shirazi is a rare voice of rational analysis and political insight that provides an eloquent counter to the pervasive absurdities that make up popular political discourse.
life is of no value but as it brings gratifications. among the most valuable of these is rational society. it informs the mind, sweetens the temper, chears our spirits, and promotes health.