Quotes of: Rational Keyword

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

The Selfish Gene

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.

Shattered Illusions

Challenge authority; the authority of your own rational convictions.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Who is the brave man--he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination.

March

...it is in the very fundamentals of evil that one always condemns it when they see it but rationalizes it when they do it.

The Ninety Trillion Fausts

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

Sense and Sensibility

An Ego Mind is a destructive mind and a rational mind is a peaceful mind.

One Soul, Many Faces: Revealing the Hidden Truth

If we were rational creatures we would never get out of bed or live or love.

One Long Thread

If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing.

Charles Krauthammer

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

Orson Welles

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

Oscar Wilde

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.

Oscar Wilde

The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation.

Phillip E. Johnson

Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.

Patrick MacGill

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

A. R. Ammons

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

Roxane Gay

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: 'Thou shalt not ration justice.'

Sophocles

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

Thomas Henry Huxley

Art forms that appeal to [leftists] tend to focus on ... defeat and despair ... as if there were no hope of accomplishing anything through rational calculation.

Theodore Kaczynski

We look into our hearts and see objectivity; we look into our minds and see rationality; we look into our beliefs and see reality.

Kathryn Schulz

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.

Lyman Abbott