Rational Quotes

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.

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

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.

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

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

It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.

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.

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

Republicans: steely, rational, paternalistic, respectful of authority, easy to herd, the party of No. Democrats: sugary, emotional, idealistic, yearning for novelty, hard to marshal, the party of Oh Yeah, Baby, Make Mama Feel Good.

The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire.

Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.

China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.

In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we're actually unhappy. Emotion is good; passion is good. Being into what we're into, provided that it's a healthy pursuit, it's a good thing.

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.

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

It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.