Rational Quotes

You have to have a lot of passion for what you do... because if you don't, any rational person would give up.

Without passion, any rational person would give up!

The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.

Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.

I am not anti-rational, just unrational. You may infer a rational meaning in what I say or do, but it is your doing, not mine.

It is fatal to let people suppose that Christianity is only a mode of feeling; it is vitally necessary to insist that it is first and foremost a rational explanation of the universe.

Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.

Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.

Refuse any image that could have a rational meaning or any memory or culture

A mode of knowledge rooted in silence and intuitive insight which gives meaning to life but which cannot be explained in rational terms.

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Darwinism removed the whole idea of God as the creator from the sphere of rational discussion.

Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world

The ultimate solutions to problems are rational; the process of finding them is not.

Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.

One of the peculiarities of economics is that it still rests on a behavioral assumption-rational utility maximization-that has long since been rejected by sociologists and psychologists.

People do not consciously and rationally choose the form of their society. Societies develop through processes of social evolution that are not under rational human control.

I believe that the subconscious always knows what is best. It is our conditional, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up.

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

A god or revelation capable of proof or rational verification by an autonomous man would be worthless.

It is only the belief and the confidence we have in a God why man is able to understand his own social institutions, and move and live like a rational human being.

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

To believe in faeries is to step into an enchanted space where the rational mind meets the irrational heart, and all things become possible.

It is not music's function to express rational necessities.

Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life

The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person.

Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

Animal liberationists do not separate out the human animal, so there is no rational basis for saying that a human being has special rights. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all mammals.

A philosopher may deplore the eternal discords of the human race, but he will confess, that the desire of spoil is a more rational provocation than the vanity of conquest.

Opinions don't affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you're rational

Humor could not flourish in a wholly serious and rational atmosphere.

The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'

When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.

Puritanism carried the ethos of the rational organization of capital and labor. It took over from the Jewish ethic only what was adapted to this purpose.

A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty of others.

We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said." Love is the only rational act.

Effective altruism is the form of altruism in which we bring our rational capacities to bear in order to do the most good that we can.

Hedonism can be a rational response to a difficult life.

In hell, sinners shall forever lay all the blame on their own wills. Hell is a rational torment by conscience.

If God is incomprehensible to man, it would seem rational never to think of Him at all.

The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because, if you can do that, you can do anything.

"Akrasia" [weakness of will] in rational beings is as common as wine in France.

Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.

The rational is apprehended through the intellect, however, the intellect is not found in the region of the rational; the intellect is as the eye and the rational as the colors.

I feel that one must deliberate then act, must scan every life choice with rational thinking but then base the decision on whether one's heart will be in it.

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.