Rational Quotes
Rational Quote of the day
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.
Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.
For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into the rational channels of a freedom movement, they would be invincible.
I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
The development of a rational view of the nature of catalysis was thus absolutely dependent on the creation of the concept of the rate of chemical reaction.
Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.
What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?
Humans alone are created as rational beings in the image of God, capable of a relationship with God and given by him the capacity to understand the universe in which they live.
Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.
I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.
There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness
You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.
The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.
Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.
Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful.
A moral person is one who constantly exercises, and acts on, his best rational judgment.
Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner
Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational; and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.
Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.
When man continues to destroy nature, he saws the very branch on which he sits since the rational protection of nature is at the same time the protection of mankind
Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or can be, namely free and equal rational beings with the liberty to choose.
It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.
It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.
Individualism regards man-every man-as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being.
The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.
Our rational minds often attempt to minimise or negate the mystical encounters. We forget the power of our experiences. We must embrace the reality of that event, which is a miracle.
The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents.
The nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even an effective defense against itself.
Intellectual men who quickly wolf down whatever nourishment is necessary for their bodies with a kind of disdain, may be very rational and have a noble intelligence, but they are not men of taste.
More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute for rational thought.
Rational order in the technological world can be as fascinating as the fetishes of a Congo witch-doctor - scientific phenomena become significant images.
What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French.
We shouldn't even need the word 'atheism'. If people didn't invent ridiculous imaginary gods, rational people wouldn't have to deny them.
I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making - just the facts.
One rational voice is dumb: over a grave The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved. Sad is Eros, builder of cities, And weeping anarchic Aphrodite.
When even the dictators of today appeal to reason, they mean that they possess the most tanks. They were rational enough to build them; others should be rational enough to yield to them.
It is not enough to have a talented designer; the management must be inspired too. The creative process is very disorganised; the production process has to be very rational.
The truth is, after all the declamations we have heard, that the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS.
