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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
Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.
— Julia Ward Howe
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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
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[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
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
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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
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
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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
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
We have a high moral responsibility to be rational
— Charlie Munger
I get rational when I panic.
— Amy Hempel
Progress of the human society is predicated upon the proper functioning of a key element of the human mind, that is reasoning.
— Abhijit Naskar
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
People are only rational on the surface.
— Stephen King
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
Courage is resistance against rational or irrational fear.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
A narrow hallway is all that separates rational from irrational, creativity from insanity, and intelligence from stupidity.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
