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.
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I believe in equality. But I don't like the word feminist, because it's such a rational belief to think that women are equal to men, and I'm a rational person. You shouldn't be labeled for being reasonable. You should be labeled if you're f-cking crazy.
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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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When anxiety wins, the mad part of me peels away from the rational one.
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It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.
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My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths
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To stand well in the estimation of one's country is a happiness that no rational creature can be insensible of.
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If you scare somebody enough, they stop being rational.
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To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.
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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.
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It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.
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In the end, rational policy is always good.
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Another of the qualities of science is that it teaches the value of rational thought, as well as the importance of freedom of thought; the positive results that come from doubting that all the lessons are true... Learn from science that you must doubt the experts. As a matter of fact, I can also define science another way: Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
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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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The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.
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Bolivia also depends not only on tin and other minerals, but also depends on the gas and oil. A rational extraction should be made, taking care of the environment. We should give added value to this natural resource, and generate revenue to fight poverty with more resources, that come from natural resources.
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Lovers are rarely the most rational beings in creation.
