Best 201 quotes in «rational quotes» category

If you scare somebody enough, they stop being rational.

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.

If you accept the institutional lunacy, then the policies are rational.

I have no phobias. Phobias are irrational. My fears are rational and CAREFULLY CULTIVATED, like roses.

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

I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.

In a dream it's typical not to be rational.

In times of crisis human beings don't have it in them to be rational.

In Turkey religion not only affects society but is affected by it, which is why Turkish Islam differs from Arab Islam. It's a more modern, more rational, more self-confident society.

It is rational to believe, as it is our very existence that is at stake.

In the face of such overwhelming statistical possibilities hypochondria has always seems to me to be the only rational position to take on life.

I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.

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.

It is both theoretically mistaken and morally wrong to regard others as objects of investigation rather than partners in free rational communication.

It's all emotion. But there's nothing wrong with emotion. When we are in love, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are on vacation, we are not rational; we are emotional.

It is easier to rationalize than it is to be rational.

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

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

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

I urge a willingness to reserve a place in rational science for non-rational wonder.

Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again

Lovers are rarely the most rational beings in creation.

Only the stupid and the wicked can fear rational criticism.

People in the voting booth are not purely rational creatures any more than they're purely rational creatures outside the voting booth.

Pluralism lets things really exist in the each-form or distributively. Monism thinks that the all-form or collective-unit form is the only form that is rational.

Kant was a rational theologian. He did not pretend to be a biblical or revealed theologian.

More often than not, the only thing between you and your dream is a rational excuse.

Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.

Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought.

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.

Refuse any image that could have a rational meaning or any memory or culture

Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility.

The first koan do not have rational answers. They are techniques devised over the millennia for triggering an actual experience.

The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents.

To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.

Rational assessments too often led to rational surrenders.

Skepticism is not a denial of belief, but rather a denial of rational grounds for belief.

Socialism is the renunciation of rational economy.

The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

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

The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.

To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up its own ass.

To stand well in the estimation of one's country is a happiness that no rational creature can be insensible of.

We must be both rational and intellectual, both analytic and imaginative, utilizing both statistics and insight.

To me, poetry is a rational act. I never write a poem if I'm not sure what I am going to say or what I want to communicate.

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

Well, it's possible to be mentally ill and rational.

What did it matter to me? Did I think that by making you rational about one thing, I could make you rational about everything? Maybe. Or maybe I just wanted to save you from your fears