Rational Quotes

Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and -- and rational argument.

Greek philosophy departs from the assumption that we can understand the world autonomously using our rational faculties. Islam is not saying this.

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.

Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.

I feel that one must deliberate then act, must scan every life choice with rational thinking but then base the decision on whether one's heart will be in it.

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.

What no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

Thank you for calling customer service. If you're calm and rational, press 1. If you're a whiner, press 2. If you're a hot head, press 3

Rational people have better things to do than grant unwarranted credibility to every half-assed delusion.

[There can be no] rational administration of government when good men are held in the same esteem as bad ones.

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

When you're working on development issues, optimism is not always based on rational analysis, often it is a moral choice.

The void in our society has been produced by the absence of values... we have no widespread belief in the value of participation. The rational system has made us fear standing out in any serious way.

Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.

The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it.

We have a high moral responsibility to be rational

A successful trader is rational, analytical, able to control emotions, practical, and profit oriented.

As long as men are free to speak, a small, rational minority will always prevail over an irrational majority.

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.

I contend that most emotional distress is best understood as a rational response to sick societies.

Man is a conscious, rational thinker and a supra-conscious creator genius.

There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.

The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.

The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being

The rational and peaceable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people.

We have already shown that there is no such thing as free will. That's a will-o'-the-wisp. You never make choices without reasons, not as a responsible or a rational person

Being rational is a moral Imperative. You should never be stupider than you need to be.

When the rational mind is shut off, we have the possibility of intuition.

To some extent, stocks are like Rembrandts. They sell based on what they've sold in the past. Bonds are much more rational. No-one thinks a bond's value will soar to the moon.

A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires and what can be done.

What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.

Tragedy speaks not of secular dilemmas which may be resolved by rational innovation, but of the unalterable bias toward inhumanity and destruction in the drift of the world.

Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?

The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness.

In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives.

The Holy Grail of universal coverage in the United States may remain out of reach unless, through rational collective action overriding some individual self-interest, we can reduce per capita costs.

There is no substantive, rational defense; I mean, the other side doesn't have a case.

A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.

To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all.

A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires.

Gardening is not a rational act.

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.

There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on matters of knowledge, of truth, of rational conviction.

The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking.

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.