quotes about Rational
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Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought.
-- Antoni TapiesSource : Barbara Catoir, Antoni Tàpies (1991). “Conversations with Antoni Tàpies: With an Introduction to the Artist's Work”
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Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
-- Auguste Comte -
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A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.
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All rational beings have an agency of their own; and according to their own choice they will be saved or damned.
-- Brigham Young -
Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile.
-- Carter HeywardSource : Carter Heyward (1984). “Our Passion for Justice: Images of Power, Sexuality, and Liberation”
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We have a high moral responsibility to be rational
-- Charlie Munger -
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To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all.
-- Colin Firth -
It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making.
-- Cory Doctorow -
It is remarkable that God began this work among the Indians at a time when I had the least hope, and to my apprehension the least rational prospect of success.
-- David Brainerd -
I just don't understand why the idea of the universe creating itself is a rational one
-- Dennis Prager -
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I'm a very rational person but I pray every day.
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The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
-- George Santayana -
When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to.
-- George Soros -
To stand well in the estimation of one's country is a happiness that no rational creature can be insensible of.
-- George Washington -
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Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.
-- Glen CookSource : Glen Cook (2007). “Chronicles of the Black Company”, p.391, Macmillan
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You can't behave in a calm, rational manner. You've got to be out there on the lunatic fringe.
-- Jack Welch -
If God is incomprehensible to man, it would seem rational never to think of Him at all.
-- Jean MeslierSource : Paul-Henri Thiry Baron d'Holbach, Voltaire , Voltaire, Anna Knoop, L. W. De Laurence, Jean Meslier (2010). “Superstition in All Ages”, p.61, Lulu.com
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I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.
-- Jim Harrison -
Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
-- Jimmy Wales -
Few fears are rational.
-- Joan SlonczewskiSource : Joan Slonczewski (2000). “A Door Into Ocean”, p.101, Macmillan
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Well, it's possible to be mentally ill and rational.
-- Joey Comeau -
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Who should know better than a cosmetician that human beings are less than rational creatures?
-- John Brunner -
In a dream it's typical not to be rational.
-- John Forbes Nash -
The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents.
-- John PolkinghorneSource : John Polkinghorne, Nicholas Beale (2009). “Questions of Truth: Fifty-one Responses to Questions about God, Science, and Belief”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press
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Grown people with rational minds somehow do not know what's best for them.
-- Jude MorganSource : Jude Morgan (2011). “Indiscretion”, p.198, Hachette UK
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When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion.
-- Jules de Goncourt -
I am more human than rational.
-- Karen EssexSource : Karen Essex (2008). “Stealing Athena: A Novel”, p.336, Anchor
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I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law.
-- Ken LivingstoneSource : "Ken Livingstone tells Jewish Chronicle of his contrition over leaked remarks" by Hélène Mulholland, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2012.
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
-- Larry Niven -
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Love isn't rational, it's instinctive
-- Laurie Faria Stolarz -
Refuse any image that could have a rational meaning or any memory or culture
-- Luis Bunuel -
You're saying, "I'm gonna do this thing," and you have to be aware, as a rational human being, that you may not be allowed back in.
-- M. Night Shyamalan -
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Being so rational, we have created a very simple version of ourselves.
-- Marcel Wanders -
To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.
-- Marcus Aurelius -
Every being ought to do that which is according to its constitution; and all other things have been constituted for the sake of the superior, but the rational for the sake of one another.
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Better a superstitious believer than a rational unbeliever.
-- Nachman of Breslov -
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The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.
-- Natalie Jeremijenko -
I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
-- Noam Chomsky -
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I've always wanted to make the world a more rational place. I'm still working on it.
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What if I am wrong? Any rational investment plan has to start with that question.
-- Peter L. Bernstein -
These are not free men in any rational and exact sense of the word.
-- Ralph Adams Cram -
Humor could not flourish in a wholly serious and rational atmosphere.
-- Raymond SmullyanSource : Raymond M. Smullyan, Jason Rosenhouse (2014). “Four Lives: A Celebration of Raymond Smullyan”, p.273, Courier Corporation
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What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French.
-- Richard RortySource : "Richard Rorty. What made him a crucial American philosopher?" by Stephen Metcalf, www.slate.com. June 18, 2007.
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Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.
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Rational assessments too often led to rational surrenders.
-- Scott JurekSource : Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.182, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.
-- Simon NewcombSource : Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers
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Without passion, any rational person would give up!
-- Steve Jobs -
You have to have a lot of passion for what you do... because if you don't, any rational person would give up.
-- Steve Jobs -
Lovers are rarely the most rational beings in creation...
-- Susanna Clarke -
I am not anti-rational, just unrational. You may infer a rational meaning in what I say or do, but it is your doing, not mine.
-- U.G. Krishnamurti -
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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
-- William WycherleySource : William Wycherley (1751). “The Country Wife: A Comedy, as it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal. Written by Mr. Wycherley”, p.10
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Kant was a rational theologian. He did not pretend to be a biblical or revealed theologian.
-- Allen W. Wood -
We can live a more relaxed life. We can accept that our decisions aren't rational, that we are always conditioned by society; that we lose something every time we choose something else, and that we can't truly control the consequences of our decisions.
-- Renata Salecl -
I contend that most emotional distress is best understood as a rational response to sick societies.
-- Oliver JamesSource : Oliver James (2007). “Affluenza: How to be Successful and Stay Sane”
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What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?
-- Emmanuel Levinas -
When people are temperate in their behavior, in their lives, someone who is addictive or extreme or obsessive can't understand how people can just go through their lives in the middle, and people who are rational and balanced can't understand the opposite. I'm one who's in the extreme camp in almost every area of my life and I always have been. I've observed that I'm in a minority, but I never understand people who are measured.
-- James TobackSource : Source: film.avclub.com