Quotes of: Rationally Keyword

The would-be sorcerer alone has faith in the efficacy of pure knowledge; rational people know that things act of themselves or not at all.

Shadow & Claw

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.

Meditations

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.

Losing It

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

Levels of Life

the thing about fear is that it defies the laws of rationality. It creates its own laws instead

Love Is the Higher Law

Selfishness is a bad habit. That’s why I always rationally think through my decisions to act without regard for others.

Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

Politics is an art and not a science, and what is required for its mastery is not the rationality of the engineer but the wisdom and the moral strength of the statesman

Scientific Man Vs. Power Politics

The unschooled European mind, inclined to rational reduction, to pigeonholing and simplification, readily pushes everything African into a single bag and is content with facile stereotypes.

The Shadow of the Sun

Apparently rational justifications will never explain all sorts of the different feelings and raw emotions art invoke in people.

Trust: Pandora's Box

What are the secret of success? -one word answer :"rational

Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

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

Pride and Prejudice

You cannot control faeries. Can. Not. They aren't logical or rational. They don't obey the same laws (physical, social, emotional, traffic - you name it) that we do.

Paranormalcy

We violate the innocence of things in the name of rationality so we can wander about, uninterrupted, in our search for passion and sentiment.

A Thousand Days in Venice

To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.

Understanding Media: The Extensions Of Man

The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture

Whose Justice? Which Rationality?

We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history.

Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

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.

Atonement

Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually, afterwards. But generally, they come about just by feeling.

Joe Wright

Because some people have sex with people of the same sex, an entire culture has been created, broadly speaking, out of oppression. Which in a rational world would not be an issue.

Neil Tennant

How is it possible for someone who believes that the world was created in six days to have a rational conversation with me, who doesn't believe that, about other possibilities?

Paul Auster

Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.

Robert Blair