Quotes of: Rational Keyword

But it is cute. It's such a boy thing to do. Drop dead. Aw, you say the most romantic things.

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

I don't want to rule the universe. I just think it could be more sensibly organised.

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Southerners have mastered picking, choosing, and rationalizing religious texts to fit their social agenda better than their own mother’s fried chicken recipe.

Just Another Number

What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.

Man's Search for Meaning

Evil people can still keep promises. Many have done just that, girl, though they are usually not promises you ‘rational’ people wish them to keep.

Melody's Room

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

Notes from the Cafe

He supposed he knew, rationally, that she wasn't the prettiest woman in the world, but if his eyes saw any imperfections, his heart didn't care.

Kill and Tell

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

Love and Sex Signs: Venus, Mars and Astrology

The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic.

The Society of the Spectacle

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

The Science of Vampires

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.

Persuasion

The ego is a mean mechanism which mobilizes the absolute strongest rationalization traps in order to preserve itself.

Rite Of Passage: Memoirs of a Survivor of the Pickup Community

Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized... we shall have war.

The Two Sources of Morality and Religion

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.

Vanishing Acts

Even if their supplies of love are finite, they've figured out that life is, too, and they're no longer rationing.

Which Brings Me to You: A Novel in Confessions

University departments wanted to hire sober, rational researchers and teachers. You were allowed revelatory, apocalyptic experiences only after you had tenure.

Acts of God While on Vacation

I think the Democratic Party has picked a lot of the wrong candidates, the kind that Middle America, or people who are more down the middle and more rational, can't side with. I think that's been the problem.

Glenn Danzig

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.

Peter Singer

I've become wary of interviews in which you're forced to go back over the reasons why you made certain decisions. You tend to rationalize what you've done, to intellectually review a process that is often intuitive.

Peter Weir

Consider your own deepest fears-real or imagined. Actually all fear is born of the imagination, which means that the danger we fear doesn't need to be rational or even real to be potent.

Richard Paul Evans

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.

Thomas Jefferson