Rational Quotes - page 4

Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)
Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or can be, namely free and equal rational beings with the liberty to choose. View quote
John Rawls
At best the principles that economists have supposed the choices of rational individuals to satisfy can be presented as guidelines for us to consider when we make our decisions. View quote
John Rawls
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational. View quote
Herbert Simon
To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable. View quote
Epictetus
In that shrinking moment he discovered that he had never hated anyone until now. It was a feeling as pure as love, but dispassionate and icily rational. View quote
Ian McEwan
My position is to listen to my constituents, learn from the best information available and ultimately make sound, rational decisions that are going to be beneficial to the people of the 8th Congressional District. View quote
Gabrielle Giffords
The enormity of the universe revealed by science cannot readily be grasped by the human brain, but the music of The Planets enables the mind to acquire some comprehension of the vastness of space where rational understanding fails. View quote
Gustav Holst
People do not consciously and rationally choose the form of their society. Societies develop through processes of social evolution that are not under rational human control. View quote
Theodore Kaczynski
I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual. View quote
Rem Koolhaas
Sometimes I feel that a more rational explanation for all that has happened during my lifetime is that I am still only thirteen years old, reading Jules Verne or H. G. Wells, and have fallen asleep. (Stanislaw Ulam)
It seems that I have spent my entire time trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort. View quote
Alfred Jules Ayer
Animal liberationists do not separate out the human animal, so there is no rational basis for saying that a human being has special rights. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all mammals. View quote
Ingrid Newkirk
What do you think God gave you more wealth than is requisite to satisfy your rational wants for, when you look around and see how many are in absolute need of that which you do not need? Can you not take the hint? View quote
Josiah Gilbert Holland
Man is many things, but he is not rational. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational. View quote
Oscar Wilde
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. View quote
Ken Wilber
On any longer view, man is only fitfully committed to the rational - to thinking, seeing, learning, knowing. Believing is what he's really proud of. View quote
Martin Amis
Raymond Aron ascribes to Weber the view that 'each man's conscience is irrefutable.' ... while [Weber] holds that an agent may be more or less rational in acting consistently with his values, the choice of any one particular evaluative stance or commitment can be no more rational than any other. All faiths and all evaluations are equally non-rational. View quote
Alasdair MacIntyre
Capitalism is the sorcerer's apprentice: it has summoned up powers which have spun wildly out of control and now threaten to destroy us. The task of socialism is not to spur on those powers but to bring them under rational human control. View quote
Terry Eagleton
A large plural society cannot be governed without recognizing that, transcending its plural interests, there is a rational order with a superior common law. (Walter Lippmann)
There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis. View quote
Malcolm Gladwell
Man is a conscious, rational thinker and a supra-conscious creator genius. View quote
Pitirim Sorokin
The difference in sex does not hinder the ability of being strong on the levels of thinking, giving, having a strong willpower and the ability to take the right decision and the right position after studying all options, once the circumstances that favor creativity and rational thinking are available. View quote
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate, or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the laws of nature and of nations. And it is that rule of action, which is prescribed by some superior, and which the inferior is bound to obey. View quote
William Blackstone