Best 201 quotes in «rational quotes» category

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

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

Fear overrides all rational thinking

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

Hedonism can be a rational response to a difficult life.

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

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 scare somebody enough, they stop being rational.

I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.

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

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

In a dream it's typical not to be 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 times of crisis human beings don't have it in them to be 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Only the stupid and the wicked can fear rational criticism.

Lovers are rarely the most rational beings in creation.

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

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

Rational assessments too often led to rational surrenders.

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.

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.

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

Socialism is the renunciation of rational economy.

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.

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