Rational Quotes
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The rational is apprehended through the intellect, however, the intellect is not found in the region of the rational; the intellect is as the eye and the rational as the colors.
Nicholas of Cusa
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What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?
Emmanuel Levinas
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It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery.
Zoë Heller
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With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
Jane Austen
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Skepticism is not a denial of belief, but rather a denial of rational grounds for belief.
William Pepperell Montague
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Evolution is a laughing matter for anybody that's got a rational mind.
Merle Haggard
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When you have half of Caironese in slums, when you don't have clean water, when you don't have a sewer system, when you don't have electricity, and on top of that you live under one of the most repressive regimes right now... Well, put all that together, and it's a ticking bomb. It's not of a question of threat; it is question of looking around at the present environment and making a rational prognosis.
Mohamed ElBaradei
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Economists discount any factors that would not influence the thinking of a rational person.
Richard Thaler
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Dub music is like a long echo delay, looping through time...turning the rational musical order into an ocean of sensation.
David Toop
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The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly fed
William James
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At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.
William O. Douglas
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Becoming fully rational is not enough anymore; evidently it can lead to distortions of all the great human possibilities.
Thomas Keating
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And yet my, not only my faith, but my experience has led me to believe that the world is not a construction of space and time and matter and energy. That that mapping is insufficient. That the world is instead some kind of a linguistic construct. It is more in the nature of a sentence, or a novel, or a work of art than it is in the nature of these machine models of interlocking law that we inherit out of a thousand years of rational reductionism.
Terence McKenna
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Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again...
Jane Austen
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The divine therapy helps us integrate our animal nature with the new possibilities of rational consciousness.
Thomas Keating
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Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns.
Thomas Sowell
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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.
Kiersten White
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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.
Jane Austen
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It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.
Alasdair MacIntyre
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Sometimes I see it a foul by an Arsenal player, but I say that I didn’t see it to protect the players and because I could not find any rational explanation for what they did.
Arsene Wenger
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Behind every rational and irrational force in human society there is a social mechanism which determines where it is to appear and what forms it is to take.
Karl Mannheim
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Being an atheist is like not owning a TV – completely rational, but best kept to one's self.
Barrett Brown
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The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human values.
Charles A. Reich
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Listen, I mean that from my knowledge of the world that I see around me, I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational efforts of extra-terrestrial intelligence.
Richard Feynman