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A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
View quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
View quotes by Sir Thomas Aquinas

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

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

When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.
View quotes by Ayn Rand

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
View quotes by W B Yeats

She must know all the needs of a rational being,
Be skilled to keep counsel, to comfort, to coax
And, above all things else, be accomplished at seeing
My jokes. [A Plea for Trigamy]
View quotes by Sir Owen Seaman

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

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.
View quotes by William O Douglas

No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history.
View quotes by Stephen Jay Gould

A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation
View quotes by Albert Einstein

Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.
View quotes by Mary Wortley Montagu

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
View quotes by Ayn Rand

In fact, at this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth-shaking transformation would occur simply if everybody truly evolved to a mature, rational, and responsible ego, capable of freely participating in the open exchange of mutual self-esteem. There is the 'edge of history.' There would be a real New Age.
[Up From Eden (1981)]
View quotes by Ken Wilber



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