Rational Quotes

In Turkey religion not only affects society but is affected by it, which is why Turkish Islam differs from Arab Islam. It's a more modern, more rational, more self-confident society.

The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come.

If you want to feel good, be rational.

...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide to action nor a standard of morality.

It is possible for leaders or regimes to be cruel, bigoted, twisted in their world views and still make rational calculations with respect to their limits and their self-preservation.

That the vegetable creation should restore the air which is spoiled by the animal part of it, looks like a rational system, and seems to be of a piece with the rest.

The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.

Thomas Aquinas states parenthetically, as something entirely obvious, that men are more rational than women. For my part, I see no evidence of this.

A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.

This is why rational people - anti-religionists - must end their timidity and come out of their closet and assert themselves.

The metaphoric mind includes rationality, linearity, and logic - for it created them. But like some children, the rational mind often seems embarrassed by the presence of its parents.

All rational beings have an agency of their own; and according to their own choice they will be saved or damned.

Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.

The man of regular life and rational mind never despairs.

Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.

I believe in God, but not in any rational or theological scope.

It might not be rational, but I am terrified of getting stuck in an elevator with a bear.

But the rational mind usually doesn't decide what emotions we "should" have !

I dont see much difference between it and the other films though I can see on a rational and intelligent level there is a big difference.

The Founding Fathers worried that some common impulse of passion might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. It's a rational fear, one that is played out endlessly.

What did it matter to me? Did I think that by making you rational about one thing, I could make you rational about everything? Maybe. Or maybe I just wanted to save you from your fears

It is sometimes rational to do what is wrong, and sometimes irrational to do what is right

More often than not, in order to find truth, a wise man must suffer the ravings of the insane. There is no undiscovered truth to be found in the minds of the reasonable and rational.

There has got to be a point that exists somewhere, when a rational person just has to shake his head and say: 'You know what? Maybe all the crack-pots are right!'

The most rational defender of nature is driven by a passion for wildness that cannot be explained by an appeal to logic.

I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.

Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.

My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.

To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.

Making up characters and places and plots, unlike fixing your plumbing or doing dishes, is anything but practical or rational. I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right.

A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.

Religion is either something we scorn because we are too rational or it's the realm of the fanatic who insists that their God and their religion is the only way and everyone else is dammed.

I'm quite a rational person. I'm not very superstitious, but I really do enjoy horror as a genre.

The real is the rational and the rational is the real.

I would like to see our society mature, and become more rational and more knowledge-based, less emotion-based.

To stand well in the estimation of one's country is a happiness that no rational creature can be insensible of.

Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.

Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the subject of labor.

Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.

I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker and you have to stop all that to write a novel.

Fear beyond rational limits forces people to cling to normality

You can't behave in a calm, rational manner. You've got to be out there on the lunatic fringe.

There's no rational reason why opera should exist. It's expensive, time consuming. Yet in some shape or other it has always existed.

At the root of all the varied manifestations of dancing, lies the common impulse to resort to movement to externalize emotional states which we cannot extemalize by rational means.

Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in the most rational and agreeable manner is one of the great arts of living.

A wise man has told us that "men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in."

And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.

People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rational behind it.

Architecture, in itself, at the end of the day, is a rational profession.