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These are not free men in any rational and exact sense of the word. — Ralph Adams Cram

The emotional and rational networks battle not only over immediate moral decisions, but in another familiar situation as well: how we behave in time. — David Eagleman

I would like to see our society mature, and become more rational and more knowledge-based, less emotion-based. — George Lucas

It's a tradition," Grimm said. "Were traditions rational, they'd be procedures. — Jim Butcher

Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy. — Julia Ward Howe

An external thing that is knowable [is knowable] by means of something internal that is consubstantial [with the rational soul]. — Nicholas Of Cusa

There is no comfortable middle path where we get to provide a rational justification for our basic moral, religious and common sense beliefs. — Frederick C. Beiser

In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence, I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist. — H.P. Lovecraft

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

I learned that most people buy based on emotion, not on a rational breakdown of the product or service. — Nick Woodman

I'm quite a rational person. I'm not very superstitious, but I really do enjoy horror as a genre. — Gemma Chan

[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.' — Salvador Dali

Why did the Germans and Japanese keep fighting after 1943 when every rational hope of victory had disappeared? — Niall Ferguson

The most rational defender of nature is driven by a passion for wildness that cannot be explained by an appeal to logic. — Eban Goodstein

It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational. — Alasdair MacIntyre

Dub music is like a long echo delay, looping through time ... turning the rational musical order into an ocean of sensation. — David Toop

RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection. — Ambrose Bierce

Falling in love is not rational. It's madness. A beautiful, wonderful moment of magnificent insanity. — Michael Faudet

I hate this version of myself because although I think I have all the power, I have none. I am not rational here. — Lily Paradis

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. — W.B.Yeats

Isn't it fascinating how our minds work when rational thought is at war with emotion? — Kate Watterson

Who should know better than a cosmetician that human beings are less than rational creatures? — John Brunner

Revenge and rational thought never sleep together. — Kevin Hearne

Fie these gods! What beings are these who would play so cruelly with the sensibilities of rational, conscientious mortals? — R.A. Salvatore

The rational and peacable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people. — Thomas Jefferson

Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice. — Thomas Jefferson

Avoiding guilt is not the same as making rational decisions. — Gever Tulley

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

Once the tyranny of literalness is rejected, all relevant considerations for giving a rational content to the words become operative. — Felix Frankfurter

Step back for a minute. Pretend you're from Mars. From a coldly rational point of view, pedestrian helmets aren't a crazy idea. — A. J. Jacobs

Knowing where things are, and why, is essential to rational decision making — Jack Dangermond

She was as rational as you and I, more so perhaps, and we burnt her. — Ray Bradbury

What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Disruption never helps your cause. It just looks like you're afraid to have rational discussion. — Barney Frank

Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience. — Edward Gibbon

The lust for murder is not a rational thing. In queens, it is an instinctual response. — Laurie R. King

One of the jobs of advertising was to give the consumer rational reasons for their irrational purchases. — Liane Moriarty

I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law. — Ken Livingstone

Whenever I have doubt, I often use epistemological methods or dialectic methods to come to a rational conclusion. — Debasish Mridha

The truth is paradoxical; but man's passion for rational coherence is even stronger than his love of truth. — Aldous Huxley

Some problems are just too complicated for rational, logical solutions. They admit of insights, not answers. — Jerome Wiesner

She almost sounded sane ... If you didn't know that she was acting rational on the far side of crazy. — Rainbow Rowell

He self-knowledge that I am talking about is concrete, verifiable and is tangible like science itself and completely understandable in rational terms. — Nirmala Srivastava

Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life. — Reinhold Niebuhr

The most damaging cognitive bias is overconfidence (illusory superiority), making leaders use their "gut" when they should be more rational. — Paul Gibbons

What could be more rational than the decision to use my gifts in a way which would most clearly manifest my moral and intellectual convictions?' My — Susan Howatch

Worrying isn't rational. No one makes a conscious decision to freak out about something. — Sara Novic

Believing in George Bush was so ludicrous that believing in God almost seems rational. — Anne Lamott

The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not. — J.G. Ballard

We have a high moral responsibility to be rational — Charlie Munger

Of course she's right. How bad are things when your clinically insane mother is more rational than you are? — Susan Ee

Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe. — P.D. James

I get rational when I panic. — Amy Hempel

This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero. — Ayn Rand

Progress of the human society is predicated upon the proper functioning of a key element of the human mind, that is reasoning. — Abhijit Naskar

Sometimes knowing what's right isn't a rational decision, or even what works on paper. Sometimes leaving is the best course of action after all. — Jodi Picoult

What is rational is real and what is real is rational — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures — Samuel Johnson

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

Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason. — Gail Sheehy

We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal. — C.S. Lewis

People are only rational on the surface. — Stephen King

Men tend to try to struggle to be more rational and reduce things to simplicity more and are more impatient with ambiguity than women are. — John Crowley

I'm suggesting that criminalizing chemically fertilized grass in favor of unnaturally-fed corn is not a rational trade off. — Joel Salatin

Those who think themselves to be civilized are not always particularly intelligent, or rational. — Sara Donati

Innovation in tech favors the naive and the stubborn. If you are too rational you won't tackle problems that others once failed at. — Aaron Levie

If I have been given any gift in this life, it's my ability to live simultaneously in the rational world and the world of imagination. — Tom Robbins

Courage is resistance against rational or irrational fear. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise of ... shall we say, power. — Alan Lightman

Dare to exercise rational thinking. — Abhijit Naskar

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. — Salman Rushdie

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

What is rational in the practice of thoughtful medicine is impractical for the system. — Melissa Cady

You start with the right amount of rational and emotional experiences. You have to blend those in your product when you come out. — Tony Fadell

As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Lust, desire and passion. They can turn a wallflower into a sexual predator and a rational person into a raving lunatic. — Joanne Madeline Moore

the worst madmen don't seem odd at all," Grimm said. "They appear to be quite calm and rational, in fact. Until the screaming starts. — Jim Butcher

He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are willing to listen only to rational arguments. — Menachem Begin

I'm a rational person, and I'm not a method actor. You don't need to call me by my character's name while I'm not shooting. — Zana Marjanovic

Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity. — Jonathan Safran Foer

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others. — George Santayana

I've seen what rational thought leads to. Dumbest people I ever met were intellectuals. — Robert Ferrigno

Fuck rational thought — George Carlin

If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Optimism.. is the enemy of the rational buyer — Warren Buffett

Human beings can remain spiritual and religious while enjoying the benefits of rational administration of their affairs. — Abdolkarim Soroush

The energic value of a cause is never abolished by positing an arbitrary and rational goal: that is always a makeshift. — C. G. Jung

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner. — Norman Douglas

Our policy is impossible to justify on rational grounds, which is why we've started invoking national security and other shibboleths. — James K. Morrow

A rational model of software is to design it quickly - the economic pressure to improvise presents an interesting challenge. — Kent Beck

A wise man has told us that "men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in." — Jane Addams

Just repeating a statement often and with great vehemence does not make it a fact, and no amount of repetition can make a rational person believe it. — Brian Herbert

Sometimes one needs a little bit of faith when faced with a difficult situation. Rational answers don't always work. We also need a miracle. — Amish Tripathi

That was her last rational thought. She gave herself up to Cam completely, feasting on her. She couldn't get enough of her. — Jo Victor

Guilt isn't always a rational thing, Clio realized. Guilt is a weight that will crush you whether you deserve it or not. — Maureen Johnson

The real is the rational and the rational is the real. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God. — Epictetus

A narrow hallway is all that separates rational from irrational, creativity from insanity, and intelligence from stupidity. — Kilroy J. Oldster

I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives. — Kathryn Harrison

It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort. — A.J. Ayer