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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

A rational human being of the civilized world would be like the swan that can draw the milk from a mixture of milk and water, leaving aside the water. — Abhijit Naskar

Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past. — Samuel Johnson

Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being. — Sargent Shriver

Regarding yourself as a highly rational and compassionate being does not make you rational and compassionate in all circumstances. — Ian McEwan

Being the rational animal, man must be capable of thinking if he really wants to. Still, it may be that man wants to think, but cannot. — Martin Heidegger

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

It affects your mind so that you cannot think clearly, or make rational decisions about your own well-being. — Lauren Oliver

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

...Act upon a maxim which, at the same time, involves its own universal validity for every rational being. — Immanuel Kant

Being so rational, we have created a very simple version of ourselves. — Marcel Wanders

But being rational about it didn't cure it. — Colum McCann

The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances. — Mariella Frostrup

The Christian image of God is that of a rational being who believes in human progress. — Rodney Stark

Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing. — Michael Shermer

There is a grotesquerie to grief as well. You lose the sense of your existence being rational, or justifiable. You feel absurd. — Julian Barnes

God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being. — Walter Scott

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions? — Mary Wollstonecraft

The paralyzing fear of being lost is fed solely by the irrational fear that we will never be found. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being. — Immanuel Kant

If you scare somebody enough, they stop being rational. — Etgar Keret

I think my thinking with my heart
I act with my thinking from my heart
but I'm just a human being with a heart and not a rational thinker — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason. — Mary Wollstonecraft

The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice — Mortimer J. Adler

You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you. — Karl Popper

I hate when I break my own rules. What's the point of me being rational if I flail around like a clown? — Jesse Ball

Lies don't make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy. — Stefan Molyneux

Being rational is extremely easy for those who try to recognize an absence of the soul. — Alpha Jan

In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind. — Richard Gere

Keeps in mind that all rational things are related, and that to care for all human beings is part of being human. Which — Marcus Aurelius

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others. — Thomas Jefferson

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

Any time there's something so ridiculously dangerous that no rational human being would try it, they send for me.'
Garion — David Eddings

Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched. — Aldous Huxley

To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable. — Epictetus

I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational. — John Wilmot

What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being? — Emmanuel Levinas

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. — Jean Gebser

It was on the order of coin or stamp collecting; no rational explanation could ever be given. And high prices were being paid by wealthy collectors. — Philip K. Dick

Man: an irrational being who imagines himself to be a rational one. — Marty Rubin

To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason. — Marcus Aurelius