Rational Quotes

My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.

Socialism is the renunciation of rational economy.

The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.

A rational nature admits of nothing but what is serviceable to the rest of mankind.

Guilt isn't always a rational thing, Clio realized. Guilt is a weight that will crush you whether you deserve it or not.

I have no phobias. Phobias are irrational. My fears are rational and CAREFULLY CULTIVATED, like roses.

My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths

I argue that we should be kind, we should be compassionate, and we should definitely be reasonable and rational, but that empathy leads us astray.

Water creates a neurosis in golfers. The very thought of this harmless fluid robs them of their normal powers of rational thought, turns their legs to jelly, and produces a palsy of the upper limbs.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being.

Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.

In an evolutionary perspective, the rational mind takes a certain distance and no further, & we must be able to transcend it.

To say that a man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.

I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality.

I was once like you, enlightened and "rational", I too scoffed at lovers, Now I am drunk, crazed, thin with misery. No one is safe! Watch out.

All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.

The problem of human suffering is never too much rational thinking, or too high a demand for evidence. But the solutions are. ... Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love.

I have heard about the civilized, the marriages run on talk, elegant and honest, rational. But and I are savages.

Sometimes I feel that a more rational explanation for all that has happened during my lifetime is that I am still only thirteen years old, reading Jules Verne or H. G. Wells, and have fallen asleep.

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.

Zen is based on the recognition of two incompatible types of thought: rational and intuitive.

Everything must be organized in the most rational way. The state won't accept excessive prices.

The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike, or tremble because we are sorry, angry, or fearful as the case may be.

At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.

I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.

Any approach to scientific inference which seeks to legitimize it and answer in reponse to complex uncertainty is, for me, a totalitarian parody of a would-be rational learning process.

Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.

Sometimes I see it [a foul by an Arsenal player], but I say that I didn’t see it to protect the players and because I could not find any rational explanation for what they did.

We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.

The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior.

Dub music is like a long echo delay, looping through time...turning the rational musical order into an ocean of sensation.

The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious.

If you scare somebody enough, they stop being rational.

There is no comfortable middle path where we get to provide a rational justification for our basic moral, religious and common sense beliefs.

The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational beings.

The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers.

We avoid the gravest difficulties when, giving up the attempt to frame hypotheses concerning the constitution of matter, we pursue statistical inquiries as a branch of rational mechanics.

Knowing where things are, and why, is essential to rational decision making

Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.

At best the principles that economists have supposed the choices of rational individuals to satisfy can be presented as guidelines for us to consider when we make our decisions.

The kind of evidence that was put before the jurors led to less-than-rational decision-making. I think that juries are composed of good people who can be misled.

Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all.

Marketers know - no matter how deep the emotional connection or brand loyalty - when a product does not perform, rational thought overtakes emotion, and most consumers make a new choice.

The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act bored and above-it-all.

I'm just trying to find some secret places in the human brain because I think movies tend to be too rational sometimes. Everything is supposed to make sense. Everything is supposed to be logical.

In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds and foundations of all rational decisions.

Can you use the rational mind to transcend itself?

Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.