Rational Quotes

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.

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.

At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.

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.

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.