Rational Quotes
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The skin cells on your nose might well be “potential human beings,” in the loose sense in which a rubber ball is a “potential eraser.” But a zygote is not a “potential human being” or a “potentially rational animal.” Rather, it is an actual human being and thus an actual rational animal, just one that hasn’t yet fully realized its inherent potentials. Harris and his ilk might want to ignore the importance of this distinction, but that it is a genuine distinction cannot rationally be denied.
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Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again...
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Economists discount any factors that would not influence the thinking of a rational person.
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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
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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.
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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.
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I see Jughead as being generally this really rational dude, this anchor of sensibility in a world of boy/girl-crazy friends.
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Evolution is a laughing matter for anybody that's got a rational mind.
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Becoming fully rational is not enough anymore; evidently it can lead to distortions of all the great human possibilities.
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Humor could not flourish in a wholly serious and rational atmosphere.
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What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The divine therapy helps us integrate our animal nature with the new possibilities of rational consciousness.
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Skepticism is not a denial of belief, but rather a denial of rational grounds for belief.
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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.
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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.
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Being an atheist is like not owning a TV – completely rational, but best kept to one's self.
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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.
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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.
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It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.
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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.
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And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.
