Rational Quotes

No man has greater confidence than I have in the spirit of the people, to a rational extent. Whatever they can, they will.

The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written her moral laws, and where every man may read them for himself.

Violence is essentially wordless. and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.

You cannot be a rational subject without veto-control on the level of mental action.

I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age.

Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life.

God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.

Is management rational?

The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.

The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly fed

Pluralism lets things really exist in the each-form or distributively. Monism thinks that the all-form or collective-unit form is the only form that is rational.

The obedience of men is to imitate the obedience of angels, and rational beings on earth are to live unto God, as rational beings in heaven live unto Him.

Only the rational and useful is beautiful.

China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.

Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.

The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.

This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero.

Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.

To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an entity of a specific nature made of specific attributes.

By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man—every man—is an end in himself, he exists for his own sake, and the achievement of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose.

Feelings are invulnerable to rational thought.

So I do not pray. I accept the means at my disposal for working out my destiny. It seems to me that I have been given a mind and will power for that very purpose.

Dare to exercise rational thinking.

Never trust books on the question of whether or not to trust your rational thinking. Trust your rational thinking on the question of whether or not to trust the books.

Progress of the human society is predicated upon the proper functioning of a key element of the human mind, that is reasoning.

Psychics, astrology, tarot cards - all these mystical non-sense are signs of a weak mind. Whenever such garbage starts grabbing hold of you, seek the help of a physician or therapist.

Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.

Question like a child, reason like an adult, and write like a sage.

When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'being offended'.

Mystics reign where lacks true education.

Keep in mind my friend, if an answer is not rational, then it is not an answer, but a delusion.

Make films that purify the soul with the flow of rational, vigorous and compassionate thinking.

Prayers bring comfort, not change. Change requires tangible human efforts.

It’s cool when fashion recycles itself, it’s not cool when sustainable living does because it means there was (and is as I write) a period of absolute and possibly irreversible destruction.

Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.

When you don’t have explanation for a certain phenomenon, as a real human, you should suspend judgement, instead of concocting supernatural explanations out of ignorance and primordial fanaticism.

It is better to be foolish than a dilettante.

It is all about the trade of ignorance. And India is such a bronze-age nation that is filled with these trades (astrology, palm reading, vastushashtra and others).

The human has not one but two births – first, when a person is born from the mother’s womb, and second, when that person rises from the socio-culturally imposed cocoon of prejudices and ignorance.

In the society of thinking humanity, the natural law of trust should be - In I, I trust.

Get rid of your useless ceremonials and be educated like your ancient ancestors – Aryabhatta, Brahmagupta, Susruta and others. Make education your purpose of life and spread it among the masses.

The paralyzing fear of being lost is fed solely by the irrational fear that we will never be found.

Your daily choices and actions should be rational and productive

Slavery of the soul is worst than the slavery of the flesh.....

Where you are running to is not the answer, who is with you is the power.

They terminate your job? Employ yourself. They retire you? Refire yourself.

When you are busy doing something for God, God will also be busy doing something for you.

How do we know those who are on the Lord's side?My answer: when things happened adversarily, those who stand by God becomes Testifiers.I testify that the Lord is good, I don't know about you.

The people that God will bless the most are those who stayed with God. You do not work with walmart and expect Microsoft to pay you.

We never look at people with the eye of God instead we look at them from their past, what they did wrong.