Best 201 quotes in «rational quotes» category

Whatever the degree of your knowledge, these two—existence and consciousness—are axioms you cannot escape, these two are the irreducible primaries implied in any action you undertake, in any part of your knowledge and in its sum, from the first ray of light you perceive at the start of your life to the widest erudition you might acquire at its end.

When I met Wittgenstein, I saw that Schlick's warnings were fully justified. But his behavior was not caused by any arrogance. In general, he was of a sympathetic temperament and very kind; but he was hypersensitive and easily irritated. Whatever he said was always interesting and stimulating and the way in which he expressed it was often fascinating. His point of view and his attitude toward people and problems, even theoretical problems, were much more similar to those of a creative artist than to those of a scientist; one might almost say, similar to those of a religious prophet or a seer. When he started to formulate his view on some specific problem, we often felt the internal struggle that occurred in him at that very moment, a struggle by which he tried to penetrate from darkness to light under an intense and painful strain, which was even visible on his most expressive face. When finally, sometimes after a prolonged arduous effort, his answers came forth, his statement stood before us like a newly created piece of art or a divine revelation. Not that he asserted his views dogmatically ... But the impression he made on us was as if insight came to him as through divine inspiration, so that we could not help feeling that any sober rational comment of analysis of it would be a profanation.

When you don’t have explanation for a certain phenomenon, as a real human, you should suspend judgement, instead of concocting supernatural explanations out of ignorance and primordial fanaticism.

Whether it is rational or empirical, your approach to life must always be empathetic. Emotional intelligence is acquired when knowledge and empathy are combined and applied to situations regularly in everyday life.

When you go with first principles, a giant light goes off in what you think is a city and turns out to be an insane asylum.

Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.

While it is true that religious beliefs are often a source of conflict but the so-called rational thoughts are no better. The two World Wars, which killed more than 75 million people were not fought on the ground of religion but on the basis of so called rational thoughts like freedom, communism, nationalism, fascism or Nazism.

...you’d be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical.

Your daily choices and actions should be rational and productive

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

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

A rational army would run away.

Architecture, in itself, at the end of the day, is a rational profession.

By any rational metric, I am boring.

-But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.

God is in all things, but so far as God is Divine and so far as He is rational, God is nowhere so properly as in the soul - in the innermost of the soul

Darwinism removed the whole idea of God as the creator from the sphere of rational discussion.

Capitalism is the sorcerer's apprentice: it has summoned up powers which have spun wildly out of control and now threaten to destroy us.The task of socialism is not to spur on those powers but to bring them under rational human control.

Fear overrides all rational thinking

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

Historians are presumed to be unable to "do psychology," which is "mystical" anyway, so they are forced to accept the most "rational" explanations... "and it is on these that history is built.

Hedonism can be a rational response to a difficult life.

Human beings aren't rational animals; we're rationalizing animals who want to appear reasonable to ourselves.

I don't think all thinking is a kind of rational structure. But I don't think it is correct to identify the rational-nonrational dichotomy with the linguistic-nonlinguistic dichotomy.

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

I believe in God, but not in any rational or theological scope.

Humans alone are created as rational beings in the image of God, capable of a relationship with God and given by him the capacity to understand the universe in which they live.

I am a relatively rational being and I like to create order in poems. I like meter, I like rhyme, but ultimately I don't know where the poems come from, and I feel, at least in the beginning, that I'm taking dictation from my own dream that I don't remember.

I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas it seems to me to be entirely rational to fear death!

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.

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

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

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

If you scare somebody enough, they stop being rational.

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

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

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

I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.

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

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

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

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.

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 is easier to rationalize than it is to be rational.

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

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.

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