Quotes about Rational

Rational assessments too often led to rational surrenders. Votes: 3

Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do. Votes: 3

Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action. Votes: 3

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. Votes: 3

Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience. Votes: 3

Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally. Votes: 3

Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape. Votes: 3

Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world. Votes: 3

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions. Votes: 3

Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people. Votes: 3

Rational people have better things to do than grant unwarranted credibility to every half-assed delusion. Votes: 3

Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish. Votes: 3

The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men. Votes: 3

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational. Votes: 3

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. Votes: 3

Rational order in the technological world can be as fascinating as the fetishes of a Congo witch-doctor - scientific phenomena become significant images. Votes: 3

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

What no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish. Votes: 3

What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational Votes: 2

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational. Votes: 2

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking Votes: 2

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think. Votes: 2

I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind. Votes: 2

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works. Votes: 2

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. Votes: 2

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude. Votes: 2

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. Votes: 2

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. Votes: 2

As an atheist evolving to agnosticism, and seeking answers to whether or not belief in God is potentially rational, my life was turned upside down 35 years ago by reading C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity. Votes: 2

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge. Votes: 2

If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long? Votes: 2

I think 'vegan' is a beautiful word. It is more than just a description for our diet. I see it as a visible template for an ethical, healthy, responsible, and rational life. Because it describes our character, it says we do not take the life of another living being to satisfy our wants. Votes: 2

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms. Votes: 2

History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it. Votes: 2

In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter. Votes: 2

In a dream it's typical not to be rational. Votes: 1

Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing. Votes: 1

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser. Votes: 1

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind. Votes: 1

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason. Votes: 1

Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion. Votes: 1

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all. Votes: 1

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society. Votes: 1

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual. Votes: 1

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth. Votes: 1

The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way. Votes: 1

There are two kinds of terrorism. Rational terrorism such as Palestinian terrorism and apocalyptic terrorism like Sept. 11. You have to distinguish between the two. Votes: 1

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place. Votes: 1

To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like. Votes: 1

Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning. Votes: 1

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us. Votes: 1

The auto industry must acknowledge that a rational transportation policy should seek a balance between individual convenience, the efficient use of limited resources, and urban-living values that protect spaciousness, natural beauty, and human-scale mobility. Votes: 1

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight. Votes: 1

We think, each of us, that we're much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our decisions because we have good reasons to make them. Even when it's the other way around. We believe in the reasons, because we've already made the decision. Votes: 1

As a spiritual person, nature for me has always been a healing place. Going back all the way to my childhood on the farm, the fields and forests were places of adventure and self-discovery. Animals were companions and friends, and the world moved at a slower, more rational pace than the bustling cities where I'd resided my adult life. Votes: 1

Is management rational? Votes: 0

Few fears are rational. Votes: 0

Love isn't rational, it's instinctive Votes: 0

Fear overrides all rational thinking Votes: 0

Formal art is essentially rational. Votes: 0

We should exterminate all rational thought. Votes: 0

Gardening is not a rational act. Votes: 0

A rational army would run away. Votes: 0

Love is the only rational act. Votes: 0

I am more human than rational. Votes: 0

I get rational when I panic. Votes: 0

Socialism is the renunciation of rational economy. Votes: 0

Philosophy is the rational expression of genius. Votes: 0

The world is not a rational place. Votes: 0

A rational process is a moral process. Votes: 0

Only the rational and useful is beautiful. Votes: 0

By any rational metric, I am boring. Votes: 0

Better a superstitious believer than a rational unbeliever. Votes: 0

In the end, rational policy is always good. Votes: 0

Optimism.. is the enemy of the rational buyer Votes: 0

If you want to feel good, be rational. Votes: 0

I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought. Votes: 0

Without passion, any rational person would give up! Votes: 0

Worry lives a long way from rational thought."---Self Votes: 0

Challenge authority; the authority of your own rational convictions. Votes: 0

If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen. Votes: 0

A rational prediction has an explanation based on theory. Votes: 0

Lovers are rarely the most rational beings in creation... Votes: 0

If you scare somebody enough, they stop being rational. Votes: 0

It is not music's function to express rational necessities. Votes: 0

Well, it's possible to be mentally ill and rational. Votes: 0

We have a high moral responsibility to be rational Votes: 0

Man is many things, but he is not rational. Votes: 0

In a dream it's typical not to be rational. Votes: 0

I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist. Votes: 0

Can you use the rational mind to transcend itself? Votes: 0

No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds. Votes: 0

Hedonism can be a rational response to a difficult life. Votes: 0

If faith were rational , it wouldn't be -by definition- faith. Votes: 0

Gratitude is the first sign of a thinking, rational creature. Votes: 0

Only education, self-respect and rational qualities will uplift the down-trodden. Votes: 0

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures. Votes: 0

Science stands for rational thought, faith for superstition and unreason. Votes: 0

Only the stupid and the wicked can fear rational criticism. Votes: 0

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature. Votes: 0

I'm a very rational person but I pray every day. Votes: 0

Travel penetrates your consciousness, but not in a rational way. Votes: 0

Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life. Votes: 0

The man of regular life and rational mind never despairs. Votes: 0

Fear beyond rational limits forces people to cling to normality Votes: 0

Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity. Votes: 0

Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought. Votes: 0

If you accept the institutional lunacy, then the policies are rational. Votes: 0

In rational worlds all the hierarchies of our world are reversed. Votes: 0

Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal. Votes: 0

Humor could not flourish in a wholly serious and rational atmosphere. Votes: 0

The real is the rational and the rational is the real. Votes: 0

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words. Votes: 0

In real life, I'm very rational, and I'm not very dramatic. Votes: 0

Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability. Votes: 0

It is easier to rationalize than it is to be rational. Votes: 0

Man is a conscious, rational thinker and a supra-conscious creator genius. Votes: 0

Faith in God's promises means not always following the expected, rational path. Votes: 0

There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational. Votes: 0

Knowing where things are, and why, is essential to rational decision making Votes: 0

The rational and peacable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people. Votes: 0

Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings Votes: 0

But the rational mind usually doesn't decide what emotions we "should" have ! Votes: 0

Being so rational, we have created a very simple version of ourselves. Votes: 0

Evolution is a laughing matter for anybody that's got a rational mind. Votes: 0

The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds. Votes: 0

When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion. Votes: 0

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd. Votes: 0

Cricket is not a rational sport in India, and we go overboard. Votes: 0

My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men. Votes: 0

The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person. Votes: 0

If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question. Votes: 0

It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making. Votes: 0

I believe in God, but not in any rational or theological scope. Votes: 0

Investment must be rational; if you can't understand it, don't do it. Votes: 0

What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being? Votes: 0

If you're rational you don't get to believe whatever you want to believe. Votes: 0

To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational, Votes: 0

Architecture, in itself, at the end of the day, is a rational profession. Votes: 0

The link between rational individual behavior and collectively desirable outcomes is extremely tenuous. Votes: 0

Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again Votes: 0

Grown people with rational minds somehow do not know what's best for them. Votes: 0

We need conscious entertainment that engage and influence its consumer to rational thinking. Votes: 0

Index funds are the only rational alternative for almost all mutual fund investors. Votes: 0

RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection. Votes: 0

You can't 'work through worry and fear rationally,' because fear isn't rational! Votes: 0

When the rational mind is shut off, we have the possibility of intuition. Votes: 0

The ultimate solutions to problems are rational; the process of finding them is not. Votes: 0

I urge a willingness to reserve a place in rational science for non-rational wonder. Votes: 0

It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational. Votes: 0

There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world. Votes: 0

Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior. Votes: 0

You cannot be a rational subject without veto-control on the level of mental action. Votes: 0

A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires. Votes: 0

I really don't have a problem with gay marriage... because I'm tolerant and rational. Votes: 0

Once you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role. Votes: 0

The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art. Votes: 0

Opinions don't affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you're rational Votes: 0

Fischer Chess play was always razor-sharp, rational and brilliant. One of the best ever Votes: 0

We led with our conviction rather than rational, because rational said it was impossible. Votes: 0

I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives. Votes: 0

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature Votes: 0

A successful trader is rational, analytical, able to control emotions, practical, and profit oriented. Votes: 0

Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision. Votes: 0

Kant certainly was sympathetic with the metaphysical tradition of rational theology that he criticized. Votes: 0

If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe. Votes: 0

These are not free men in any rational and exact sense of the word. Votes: 0

Refuse any image that could have a rational meaning or any memory or culture Votes: 0

I like the sky. It's rational to me in a way that life isn't. Votes: 0

Sometimes, I work a little more from emotion than I do from rational thought. Votes: 0

I am glad that people are trying to have a rational conversation about drugs. Votes: 0

In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind. Votes: 0

I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law. Votes: 0

In times of crisis human beings don't have it in them to be rational. Votes: 0

Akrasia" [weakness of will] in rational beings is as common as wine in France. Votes: 0

Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document? Votes: 0

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational. Votes: 0

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational. Votes: 0

To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable. Votes: 0

I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational. Votes: 0

Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational. Votes: 0

Everything must be organized in the most rational way. The state won't accept excessive prices. Votes: 0

Who should know better than a cosmetician that human beings are less than rational creatures? Votes: 0

Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge. Votes: 0

It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth. Votes: 0

Disruption never helps your cause. It just looks like you're afraid to have rational discussion. Votes: 0

Zen is based on the recognition of two incompatible types of thought: rational and intuitive. Votes: 0

Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being. Votes: 0

Human beings aren't rational animals; we're rationalizing animals who want to appear reasonable to ourselves. Votes: 0

A moral person is one who constantly exercises, and acts on, his best rational judgment. Votes: 0

There is no substantive, rational defense; I mean, the other side doesn't have a case. Votes: 0

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others. Votes: 0

A person's behavior is rational if it is in his best interests, given his information Votes: 0

A rational nature admits of nothing but what is serviceable to the rest of mankind. Votes: 0

Each man must live as an end in himself and follow his own rational self-interest. Votes: 0

What if I am wrong? Any rational investment plan has to start with that question. Votes: 0

TO fear God, is one of the first and greatest Duties of his rational Creatures. Votes: 0

An Ego Mind is a destructive mind and a rational mind is a peaceful mind. Votes: 0

It is rational to believe, as it is our very existence that is at stake. Votes: 0

If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices. Votes: 0

We cannot sway extremists with rational thought or with our ideas of right and wrong. Votes: 0

To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all. Votes: 0

Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant Votes: 0

...a little kindness-love-smile-understanding-willingness to help each other may yet go a mighty long way in contemporary-rational-materialistic-world.... Votes: 0

I have no phobias. Phobias are irrational. My fears are rational and CAREFULLY CULTIVATED, like roses. Votes: 0

I contend that most emotional distress is best understood as a rational response to sick societies. Votes: 0

People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think. Votes: 0

Darwinism removed the whole idea of God as the creator from the sphere of rational discussion. Votes: 0

Some problems are just too complicated for rational, logical solutions. They admit of insights, not answers. Votes: 0

What looks like resistance in many cases is rational responses to incentives and ingrained resource-allocation processes. Votes: 0

More often than not, the only thing between you and your dream is a rational excuse. Votes: 0

I've always wanted to make the world a more rational place. I'm still working on it. Votes: 0

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. Votes: 0

As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith. Votes: 0

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. Votes: 0

History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Votes: 0

Being rational is a moral Imperative. You should never be stupider than you need to be. Votes: 0

Skepticism is not a denial of belief, but rather a denial of rational grounds for belief. Votes: 0

We must be both rational and intellectual, both analytic and imaginative, utilizing both statistics and insight. Votes: 0

[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.' Votes: 0

I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational. Votes: 0

At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword. Votes: 0

Kant was a rational theologian. He did not pretend to be a biblical or revealed theologian. Votes: 0

I just don't understand why the idea of the universe creating itself is a rational one Votes: 0

The Christian image of God is that of a rational being who believes in human progress. Votes: 0

The divine therapy helps us integrate our animal nature with the new possibilities of rational consciousness. Votes: 0

To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title. Votes: 0

I would like to see our society mature, and become more rational and more knowledge-based, less emotion-based. Votes: 0

Violence is essentially wordless. and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down. Votes: 0

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things. Votes: 0

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem. Votes: 0

Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational and habitual preference for all objects that flatter the sense of taste. Votes: 0

Why did the Germans and Japanese keep fighting after 1943 when every rational hope of victory had disappeared? Votes: 0

Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational. Votes: 0

What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. Votes: 0

A god or revelation capable of proof or rational verification by an autonomous man would be worthless. Votes: 0

The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states. Votes: 0

Destruction of the environment is not only rational; it's exactly what you're taught to do in college. Votes: 0

If God is incomprehensible to man, it would seem rational never to think of Him at all. Votes: 0

The will to believe chases out the rational mind, whenever and wherever the two come into conflict. Votes: 0

Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition. Votes: 0

Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice. Votes: 0

Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe. Votes: 0

Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful. Votes: 0

It is hard to fight against anger: to master it is the mark of a rational man. Votes: 0

It is sometimes rational to do what is wrong, and sometimes irrational to do what is right Votes: 0

Throw in the towel right off the bat. Women argue in ways that aren't rational to men. Votes: 0

Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition. Votes: 0

We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order. Votes: 0

Time's up. Excellent work. All the rational solutions came from the aspies. Everyone else was incapacitated by emotion." Votes: 0

To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason. Votes: 0

North Korea. Not only does North Korean have nuclear weapons, but their leadership appears to not be rational. Votes: 0

It might not be rational, but I am terrified of getting stuck in an elevator with a bear. Votes: 0

The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious. Votes: 0

Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world. Votes: 0

I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here. Votes: 0

You can't behave in a calm, rational manner. You've got to be out there on the lunatic fringe. Votes: 0

I realize they say we are 'wacko' and 'out there, but we are the most rational of all. Votes: 0

You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you. Votes: 0

No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history. Votes: 0

What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French. Votes: 0

I'm suggesting that criminalizing chemically fertilized grass in favor of unnaturally-fed corn is not a rational trade off. Votes: 0

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions? Votes: 0

There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis. Votes: 0

Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself. Votes: 0

I'm quite a rational person. I'm not very superstitious, but I really do enjoy horror as a genre. Votes: 0

You cannot expect any rational thought from a religious man. He is like a rocking log in water . Votes: 0

Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself. Votes: 0

People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rational behind it. Votes: 0

The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents. Votes: 0

Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational; and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content. Votes: 0

A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. Votes: 0

There is no way any rational, reasonable person can say that the Bush Administration has been good for America. Votes: 0

It's time for the sensible center to rise up and push for a rational approach to our fiscal challenges. Votes: 0

Nobody ever arrives at a very big idea through a conscious, rational thought process. It comes from your unconscious. Votes: 0

I learned that most people buy based on emotion, not on a rational breakdown of the product or service. Votes: 0

Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other. Votes: 0

The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances. Votes: 0

Human security depends on a system where each rational individual calculates that it is more profitable not to rebel. Votes: 0

I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and -- and rational argument. Votes: 0

Our exclusive dependence on rational thought and language has obscured our natural ability to sense the flow of energy. Votes: 0

The only rational way of educating is to be an example. If one can't help it, a warning example. Votes: 0

Becoming fully rational is not enough anymore; evidently it can lead to distortions of all the great human possibilities. Votes: 0

As long as men are free to speak, a small, rational minority will always prevail over an irrational majority. Votes: 0

Words have the power to release pent-up emotions as well as to define them in rational and meaningful terms. Votes: 0

Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right. Votes: 0

God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being. Votes: 0

The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally. Votes: 0

The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational. Votes: 0

A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan. Votes: 0

Analytic and romantic understanding should be united at a basic level. Reassimilate the passions from which the rational mind fled. Votes: 0

A rational model of software is to design it quickly - the economic pressure to improvise presents an interesting challenge. Votes: 0

I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel. Votes: 0

I have heard about the civilized, the marriages run on talk, elegant and honest, rational. But and I are savages. Votes: 0

I see science and mysticism as two complementary manifestations of the human mind; as its rational and intuitive faculties.Capra Votes: 0

The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life. Votes: 0

When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to. Votes: 0

When you're working on development issues, optimism is not always based on rational analysis, often it is a moral choice. Votes: 0

Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love. Votes: 0

Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason. Votes: 0

An external thing that is knowable [is knowable] by means of something internal that is consubstantial [with the rational soul]. Votes: 0

The first koan do not have rational answers. They are techniques devised over the millennia for triggering an actual experience. Votes: 0

To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake. Votes: 0

The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones. Votes: 0

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system. Votes: 0

My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior. Votes: 0

You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. Votes: 0

He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are willing to listen only to rational arguments. Votes: 0

I am a rational man, but haven't you heard? i'm also insane. It gives me a unique perspective on things. Votes: 0

[There can be no] rational administration of government when good men are held in the same esteem as bad ones. Votes: 0

In hell, sinners shall forever lay all the blame on their own wills. Hell is a rational torment by conscience. Votes: 0

Most of all I admire Mozart's capacity to be both deep and rational, a combination often said to be impossible. Votes: 0

To stand well in the estimation of one's country is a happiness that no rational creature can be insensible of. Votes: 0

Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life Votes: 0

Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy. Votes: 0

... there is no such thing as a rational world and a separate irrational world, but only one world containing both. Votes: 0

Apathy is a rational reaction to a system that no longer represents, hears or addresses the vast majority of people. Votes: 0

The delegates to the peace conference after World War I "tried to impose a rational order on an irrational world. Votes: 0

In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd. Votes: 0

There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness Votes: 0

Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched. Votes: 0

Man, the cutting edge of terrestrial life, has no rational alternative but to expand the environmental and resource base beyond earth. Votes: 0

We shouldn't even need the word 'atheism'. If people didn't invent ridiculous imaginary gods, rational people wouldn't have to deny them. Votes: 0

Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe. Votes: 0

Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same. Votes: 0

The digital age believes in the rational ordering of human beings. We believe that information will eventually solve every conceivable problem. Votes: 0

The US is to an unusual extent a business-run society, where short-term concerns of profit and market share displace rational planning. Votes: 0

Any time there's something so ridiculously dangerous that no rational human being would try it, they send for me.' --Garion Votes: 0

There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle. Votes: 0

This is why rational people - anti-religionists - must end their timidity and come out of their closet and assert themselves. Votes: 0

People in the voting booth are not purely rational creatures any more than they're purely rational creatures outside the voting booth. Votes: 0

The mind effortlessly and automatically takes in new ideas, which remain in limbo until verified or rejected by conscious, rational analysis. Votes: 0

In an evolutionary perspective, the rational mind takes a certain distance and no further, & we must be able to transcend it. Votes: 0

Sociotropic voters with biased economic beliefs are more likely to produce severe political failures than are selfish voters with rational expectations. Votes: 0

Labor was marching toward the goal of industrial democracy and contributing constructively toward a more rational arrangement of our domestic economy. Votes: 0

The genuine values in America arose from rational thought and breaking with tradition, not from blind allegiance to dirt and cloth. Votes: 0

Democracy, in any rational form, also imposes conditions on majority rule. That's what the Bill of Rights is about, for example. Votes: 0

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. Votes: 0

A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires. Votes: 0

Suppose that we believe what we are taught. . . . destroying the environment and militarizing outer space are rational policies . . . of institutional lunacy. Votes: 0

Lust, desire and passion. They can turn a wallflower into a sexual predator and a rational person into a raving lunatic. Votes: 0

There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't. Votes: 0

I don't think it's rational for a country to try to kill the Saudi Arabian ambassador in a restaurant in Washington. Votes: 0

Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational. Votes: 0

All rational beings have an agency of their own; and according to their own choice they will be saved or damned. Votes: 0

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders. Votes: 0

We are all born with a powerful herd instinct and it can force otherwise rational people to act in inexplicable ways. Votes: 0

What I'm saying is that I'm trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that's neveer a good sign. Votes: 0

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal. Votes: 0

Dub music is like a long echo delay, looping through time...turning the rational musical order into an ocean of sensation. Votes: 0

A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come. Votes: 0

All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts. Votes: 0

There's no rational reason why opera should exist. It's expensive, time consuming. Yet in some shape or other it has always existed. Votes: 0

And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all. Votes: 0

Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life ... Votes: 0

I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational. Votes: 0

Democracy allows rhetoric, false empathy and emotion to pummel rational thinking - so it's no wonder so many politicians thrive in it. Votes: 0

Greek philosophy departs from the assumption that we can understand the world autonomously using our rational faculties. Islam is not saying this. Votes: 0

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner. Votes: 0

You have to have a lot of passion for what you do... because if you don't, any rational person would give up. Votes: 0

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures Votes: 0

Were we a rational society, a virtue of which we have rarely been accused, we would husband our oil and gas resources. Votes: 0

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Votes: 0

It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort. Votes: 0

The only rational liberty is that which is born of subjection, reared in the fear of God and the love of man. Votes: 0

My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths Votes: 0

Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason. Votes: 0

I believe that the subconscious always knows what is best. It is our conditional, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up. Votes: 0

It is both theoretically mistaken and morally wrong to regard others as objects of investigation rather than partners in free rational communication. Votes: 0

..the self-knowledge that I am talking about is concrete, verifiable and is tangible like science itself and completely understandable in rational terms. Votes: 0

The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being Votes: 0

Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life. Votes: 0

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. Votes: 0

If I have to die either for religion or atheism I would prefer atheism, since my conscience will respect my rational decision. Votes: 0

No, no, no - you don't argue with concepts. You have to claim Dogma, and therefore leave no room for rational thought. Votes: 0

When you are motivating people to do amazing things, you have to win over both their rational side and their emotive side. Votes: 0

...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures. Votes: 0

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd. Votes: 0

Guilt isn't always a rational thing, Clio realized. Guilt is a weight that will crush you whether you deserve it or not. Votes: 0

The most rational defender of nature is driven by a passion for wildness that cannot be explained by an appeal to logic. Votes: 0

There is a grotesquerie to grief as well. You lose the sense of your existence being rational, or justifiable. You feel absurd. Votes: 0

Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational. Votes: 0

A mode of knowledge rooted in silence and intuitive insight which gives meaning to life but which cannot be explained in rational terms. Votes: 0

The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments. Votes: 0

Thank you for calling customer service. If you're calm and rational, press 1. If you're a whiner, press 2. If you're a hot head, press 3 Votes: 0

But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard. Votes: 0

We should respect each other as rational beings by trying to achieve our goals through reason and persuasion rather than threats and coercion. Votes: 0

Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. Votes: 0

Christian faith is not an irrational leap.Examined objectively, the claims of the Bible are rational propositions well supported by reason and evidence. Votes: 0

All that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; all that which destroys it is the evil. Votes: 0

Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all. Votes: 0

The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational beings. Votes: 0

The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it. Votes: 0

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others. Votes: 0

No man has greater confidence than I have in the spirit of the people, to a rational extent. Whatever they can, they will. Votes: 0

There is no comfortable middle path where we get to provide a rational justification for our basic moral, religious and common sense beliefs. Votes: 0

The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. Votes: 0

Innovation in tech favors the naive and the stubborn. If you are too rational you won't tackle problems that others once failed at. Votes: 0

You start with the right amount of rational and emotional experiences. You have to blend those in your product when you come out. Votes: 0

Einstein pronounced the doom of continuous or 'rational' space, and the way was made clear for Picasso and the Marx Brothers and Mad magazine. Votes: 0

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. Votes: 0

In the face of such overwhelming statistical possibilities hypochondria has always seems to me to be the only rational position to take on life. Votes: 0

To believe in faeries is to step into an enchanted space where the rational mind meets the irrational heart, and all things become possible. Votes: 0

Sometimes knowing what's right isn't a rational decision, or even what works on paper. Sometimes leaving is the best course of action after all. Votes: 0

Amor deliria nervosa: It affects your mind so that you cannot think clearly, or make rational decisions about your own well-being. Symptom number twelve. Votes: 0

The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction. Votes: 0

A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty of others. Votes: 0

What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value. Votes: 0

Thomas Aquinas states parenthetically, as something entirely obvious, that men are more rational than women. For my part, I see no evidence of this. Votes: 0

A large plural society cannot be governed without recognizing that, transcending its plural interests, there is a rational order with a superior common law. Votes: 0

Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart. Votes: 0

The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility. Votes: 0

You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding. Votes: 0

Answer me this: Is love rational? Is it sane? Can it be tamed and sculpted, like a piece of clay? Of course it can't. Votes: 0

I'm a rational person, and I'm not a method actor. You don't need to call me by my character's name while I'm not shooting. Votes: 0

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else. Votes: 0

Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can. Votes: 0

A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it. Votes: 0

Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval. Votes: 0

The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility Votes: 0

Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping. Votes: 0

I'm a militant fundamentalist atheist. I'm going to get on a crowded train, unbutton my coat and say rational things. People will be hurt. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist. Votes: 0

A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse Votes: 0

On any longer view, man is only fitfully committed to the rational -- to thinking, seeing, learning, knowing. Believing is what he's really proud of. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science. Votes: 0

A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse. Votes: 0

There is nothing wanting to make all rational and disinterested people in the world of one religion, but that they should talk together every day. Votes: 0

A man who does not question his own judgment, society, and who flourishes between deceit and bewilderment, fails his moral responsibility as a rational being. Votes: 0

Devotion is diligence without assurance. If faith were rational, it wouldn't be by definition faith. Faith is walking face-first and full speed into the dark. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm all for rational enjoyment, and so forth, but I think a fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan Votes: 0

It is the considered opinion of most members of our rational élites that, in any given difference of opinion with reality, reality is wrong. Votes: 0

Men tend to try to struggle to be more rational and reduce things to simplicity more and are more impatient with ambiguity than women are. Votes: 0

Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile. Votes: 0

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue. Votes: 0

That's why I hate the concept of falling in love. It makes you weak. It takes away your strength. Your power. Your rational sense. EVERYTHING. Votes: 0

Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice Votes: 0

One rational voice is dumb: over a grave The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved. Sad is Eros, builder of cities, And weeping anarchic Aphrodite. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to. Votes: 0

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." Votes: 0

You're saying, "I'm gonna do this thing," and you have to be aware, as a rational human being, that you may not be allowed back in. Votes: 0

If we had a better understanding of the ways we think about enemies, we might be able to think of more rational ways of settling conflict. Votes: 0

Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

At the moment our rational mind stops, hits against a wall ... something else happens. And a bigger mind, like a pearl, rolls in a silver bowl. Votes: 0

The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The development of a rational view of the nature of catalysis was thus absolutely dependent on the creation of the concept of the rate of chemical reaction. Votes: 0

Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The mind of man, cleansed of secondary and merely temporal concerns, beholds with the radiance of a cleansed mirror a reflection of the rational mind of God. Votes: 0

The nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even an effective defense against itself. Votes: 0

I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise of ... shall we say, power. Votes: 0

I think my thinking with my heartI act with my thinking from my heartbut I'm just a human being with a heart and not a rational thinker Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If you were a sane woman, I would, of course, behave in a more rational fashion. Since you are a lunatic, however, this is the only way. Votes: 0

In that shrinking moment he discovered that he had never hated anyone until now. It was a feeling as pure as love, but dispassionate and icily rational. Votes: 0

All I desire for my own burial, is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely indifferent to every rational creature. Votes: 0

Tell me I'm not crazy," He said. I couldn't do that. I was nowhere near sane enough at the moment to advise anyone else on rational behavior. Votes: 0

To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up its own ass. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more rational means of communication. Votes: 0

There is never a rational reason for a man to rejoice that a certain pretty girl exists and that he has found her. The experience, however, is universal. Votes: 0

... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose, can have a government at all. Votes: 0

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason." Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There is no justice, there is no rational structure to it [life]. That is just the way it is, and each person figures out some way to cope with it... Votes: 0

When you by nature subscribe to the view that everyone except yourself is a berk or a wanker, it is hard to bond with anybody in any rational common cause. Votes: 0

Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls. Votes: 0

A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires and what can be done. Votes: 0

If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God. Votes: 0

I try to be rational and suppress the hope that this is for real, but hope has a way of closing its eyes to reason and it just keeps growing. Votes: 0

Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours. Votes: 0

I did a lot of work without thinking about it in a calm, rational way. Stopping and thinking about what I was doing made my music calmer and deeper in tone. Votes: 0

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Kant did think he had a moral route back to rational faith in God, for those who need it, and he thought that at some level, we all do need something like it. Votes: 0

God is in all things, but so far as God is Divine and so far as He is rational, God is nowhere so properly as in the soul - in the innermost of the soul Votes: 0