Rational Quotes
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.
Behind every rational and irrational force in human society there is a social mechanism which determines where it is to appear and what forms it is to take.
There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on matters of knowledge, of truth, of rational conviction.
To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake.
There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.
And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.
They are nonhuman persons. They are not food. If animals matter morally at all, there is one and only one rational response: go vegan. Everything else is just participation in animal exploitation.
Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth.
Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.
When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to.
I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational.
History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis.
Like nature, our economic system remains, in the long run, stable and rational...We welcome the inevitable seasons of our economy! How foolish of us.
The belief that rational and quantifiable disciplines such as science can be used to perfect human society is no less absurd than a belief in magic, angels, and divine intervention.
Dancing is at once rational & healthful: it gives animal spirits; it is the natural amusement of young people, & such it has been from the days of Moses.
Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.
Man is said to be a rational creature; but should it not rather be said, that man is a creature capable of being rational, as we say a parrot is a creature capable of speech?
Once you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role.
I am a rational man, but haven't you heard? i'm also insane. It gives me a unique perspective on things.
I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.
It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason.
Light and the rational forms are locked in combat; light sets them into motion, bends what is straight, makes parallels oval, inscribes circles in the intervals, makes the intervals active.
You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you.
People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think.
The will to believe chases out the rational mind, whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.
Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.
To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational.
Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.
Anger and depression are not diseases or dysfunctions or anomalies; they are perfectly rational responses to the myriad avoidable disappointments that begin in a thoroughly irrational hope.
But as sickness and diseases have created the necessity of medicines and physicians, so the disorders of our rational nature have introduced the necessity of education and tutors.
The only rational liberty is that which is born of subjection, reared in the fear of God and the love of man.
I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war... But we have no more urgent task.
Were we a rational society, a virtue of which we have rarely been accused, we would husband our oil and gas resources.
Some people can never learn to ski powder snow without exerting tremendous effort and strength because they allow their rational, left-brain hemisphere to control the entire situation.
North Korea. Not only does North Korean have nuclear weapons, but their leadership appears to not be rational.
One doesn't accept bad challenges. Part of it is always the risk-taking without seeing that the risks are rational and the rewards are commensurate.. are more than commensurate.. with the risks.
Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile.
In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully developed only in the race, not in the individual.
Being able and willing to complain is what makes us rational and moral animals, capable of seeing and articulating the difference between how things are and how they should be.
to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer.