Rational Quotes - page 3

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all. (Harry Seidler)
Because some people have sex with people of the same sex, an entire culture has been created, broadly speaking, out of oppression. Which in a rational world would not be an issue. View quote
Neil Tennant
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. View quote
Yahoo Serious
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. View quote
Horace Mann
I have sometimes thought there could be no stronger testimony in favor of Religion or against temporal Enjoyments even the most rational and manly than for men who occupy the most honorable and gainful departments and are rising in reputation and wealth, publicly to declare their unsatisfactoriness by becoming fervent Advocates in the cause of Christ, & I wish you may give in your Evidence in this way. Such instances have seldom occurred, therefore they would be more striking and would be instead of a "Cloud of Witnesses." View quote
James Madison
Man is not a rational animal; he is a rationalizing animal. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval. View quote
Alain de Botton
Okay, look at it this way: if the evening news has a very high probability of being accurate, then it's highly improbable that they would inaccurately report the numbers chosen in the lottery. That counterbalances any improbability in the choosing of those numbers, so you're quite rational to believe in this highly improbable event. View quote
William Lane Craig
Pluralism lets things really exist in the each-form or distributively. Monism thinks that the all-form or collective-unit form is the only form that is rational. View quote
William James
Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing. View quote
Michael Shermer
When it shall be said in any country in the world, my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of its happiness: When these things can be said, then may the country boast of its constitution and its government. (Thomas Paine)
Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge. View quote
Auguste Comte
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 quote
Ayn Rand
Man-every man-is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life. View quote
Ayn Rand
Man's rights can be violated only by the use of physical force. It is only by means of physical force that one man can deprive another of his life, or enslave him, or rob him, or prevent him from pursuing his own goals, or compel him to act against his own rational judgment. View quote
Ayn Rand
What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more rational means of communication. View quote
Norman Cousins
Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Every being ought to do that which is according to its constitution; and all other things have been constituted for the sake of the superior, but the rational for the sake of one another. (Marcus Aurelius)
Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
We avoid the gravest difficulties when, giving up the attempt to frame hypotheses concerning the constitution of matter, we pursue statistical inquiries as a branch of rational mechanics. View quote
Josiah Willard Gibbs
What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaninglessness in rational terms. View quote
Viktor Frankl
True simplicity is, well, you just keep on going and going until you get to the point where you go, 'Yeah, well, of course.' Where there's no rational alternative. View quote
Jonathan Ive