Rational Quotes

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

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

Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.

No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.

The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.

Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.

For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.

From 1918 on, trade unionists were to express from the platforms of their congresses the workers' desire for peace through a rational organization of the world.

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

Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.

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

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

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.

My purpose is to make a movie to make you warm. To give you some heat. Now, this rational world has become a place where only what is cool is good. Do you cut the movie on the basis of the beat of modernity or the basis of the beat of your own heart?

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

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.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

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.

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

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.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

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.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

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.