Quotes of: Ration Keyword

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

Karl Popper

Faith is not a rational thing, and yet to understand the universe, rationality alone will not give it to us. Our understanding of the universe must transcend the rational.

John Rhys-Davies

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.

Albert Ellis

The more rational we are, the more emotional we can be.

BOTH of You: Behavior. Opinion. Thinking. Happiness - The more rational we are, the more emotional we can be.

To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

of us, whether vivisector or vegan, have been subject to mechanisms undercutting sympathy for animals. How long and to what extent we submit to these mechanisms is not a matter of rationality: to cut off our feelings and support animal exploitation r...

Brian Luke

For more than twenty years, I have been seeking a way to be both rational and spiritual. I have been looking for a ray of hope in an otherwise-compartmentalized world in which people segregate religious aspirations and rationality in the hope of not ...

More Likely to Quote Star Wars than the Bible: Generation X and Our Frustrating Search for Rational Spirituality

It is not rational to assume, without evidence, that rationality can disclose everything about the world, just because it can disclose some things. Our intuition in favour of rationality, where we are inclined to use it, is just that - an intuition. ...

Iain McGilchrist

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

Steven Pinker

Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims. Happiness is not the satisfaction of whatever irrational wishes you might blindly attempt to indulge. Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy—a joy without penalty or guilt, a...

Atlas Shrugged

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

Marianne Williamson

The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision will be whether we ration care with our eyes open.

Donald Berwick

I wonder if he really could rationalize what I did to him, really treat betrayal like the slight transgression of a recalcitrant business partner. I wonder if I hurt him. If he can rationalize what I did to him, it’s easy to imagine how he rational...

Red Glove

Is our rational and self-reliant generation really supposed to accept the idea that God the Almighty not only created the universe but, interestingly enough, also has a stake in our lives?

More Likely to Quote Star Wars than the Bible: Generation X and Our Frustrating Search for Rational Spirituality

To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical.

Ideology and Rationality in the History of the Life Sciences

At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal.

The Rational Optimist

The best government is that which governs least.

United States Magazine, Or, General Repository of Useful Instruction and Rational Amusement.

The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it.

Thomas J. Sargent

So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.

Charles Horton Cooley

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.

Peter Singer

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

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel