Rational Quotes

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse.

I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.

At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.

Crisis alone is not enough. There must also be a basis, though it need be neither rational nor ultimately correct, for faith in the particular candidate chosen.

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

In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.

Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world.

To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all.

If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker.

Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual.

Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth.

My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.

The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.

The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.

Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.

You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime.

The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

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.

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

In my rational mind, I know... that is a very simplistic way of looking at it, but when there is violence of that kind, it challenges my faith. I still can't say that I totally understand why - why that is allowed to happen.