I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel.
At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.
I don't think it's rational for a country to try to kill the Saudi Arabian ambassador in a restaurant in Washington.
There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't.
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.
I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.
What you see is when the government gets involved, you run out of money and health care gets rationed.
It is my passionate belief that we can all have better health care through rationing.
The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.
Reversing the escalation of health care costs is going to need more than legislation, yet it can be done without imposing rationing, as critics of reform fear.
Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and that the function of the scientist was to figure out the mathematical rules whereby the universe was created.
Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.
A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.
Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown.
Could we ever switch to this or any of the many other rational systems? Unlikely: tradition is difficult to overcome.
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.
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.
To me, the question of inspiration is an exercise in hindsight. The truth is, inspiration is mysterious at the time. I don't think it's ever a rational process.
