Rational Quotes

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.

The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.

Gardening is not a rational act.

Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.

My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.

But when it comes to writing the thing that I've sort of been thinking about lately, is why? You know, is it rational? Is it logical that anybody should be expected to be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this Earth to do.

Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.

My dear colleague James Hansen, I believe, has finally gone off the deep end... The global warming 'time bomb,' 'disastrous climate changes that spiral dynamically out of humanity's control.' These are the words of an apocalyptic prophet, not a rational scientist.

My family is out of the ordinary in our physical lifestyle and the day-to-day things that we deal with, but my approach to them is pretty rational and sound. And I'm the quiet one! It's very different from my performing life.

In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind.

The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility.

It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth.

What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists - whatever else they might be - might also be rational human beings; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions.

As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.

I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.

A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?

Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities.

To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.

Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.

If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.