Quotes About Rational

I'm not terribly sentimental.

There are two kinds of terrorism. Rational terrorism such as Palestinian terrorism and apocalyptic terrorism like Sept. 11. You have to distinguish between the two.

we must also recognize that aspiration is a poor substitute for rational policymaking and ask whether we have accidentally conspired to undermine the very outcomes to which we aspire.

In deciding what is rational to do, we need to take into account two further considerations independent of probability, which Keynes called 'the weight of argument' and 'moral risk'.

The principle of moral risk suggests that it is more rational to aim for a smaller good which seems more probable of attainment than to aim for a larger one which seems less, when the two courses of action have equal probable goodness. Other things being equal, 'a high weight and the absence of risk increase pro tanto the desirability of the action to which they refer'.

History, then, is perceived as a rational process, the unfolding of a design, something with a dynamic to be uncovered.

Every advance in information technology involves choosing what you want to preserve and what you want to ditch. Scanning rare books on to microfilm is a costly business. The library won't let you do it yourself - they decide first which books should be scanned and which should just rot away in the basement. Against that eventuality, people should start hoarding the kind of books committees of rational people will decide against scanning into a database.

I'm still not strictly rational. How could I be? I sell books.

Baptism fostered a rational outlook that was well suited to advancement in capitalist society.

whereas Rockefeller brought a rational spirit to the business, and this counted among his greatest contributions.

And 'the holy' will be, in Dr. Otto's language, a complex category of the 'numinous' and the 'moral', or, in one of his favourite metaphors, a fabric in which we have the non-rational numinous experience as the woof and the rational and ethical as the warp.

The unschooled European mind, inclined to rational reduction, to pigeonholing and simplification, readily pushes everything African into a single bag and is content with facile stereotypes.

Meantime, the unschooled European mind, inclined to rational reduction, to pigeonholing and simplification, readily pushes everything African into a single bag and is content with facile stereotypes.

One's goal is the shedding of mental obstacles that prevent one from being flooded with the glorious universal, Love as Being. It is a goal, therefore, that requires of us the absolute and irreversible abandonment of reason, for love is without reason, above it and beyond it; it comes without a rational explanation and lives on when there is no reason for it to survive.

Was it possible that his fear of flying had been cured at exactly the moment at which it was perfectly rational to feel afraid?

I'm always being realistic.

Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

Science is a system of rational thought devised to investigate the world and establish the laws by which it operates. The scientist uses those laws to achieve an effect. One which might easily appear magical in the eyes of the primitive.

You have to be realistic about these things.

You have to realistic about these things." ? Joe Abercrombie

Reason governs the world. World history "is therefore a rational process" (Hegel, Lectures). The German word for reason is Vernunft.

Because history is a rational process, universal history is the manifestation of a "Spirit whose nature is always one and the same, but which unfolds this its one nature in the phenomena of the World's existence.

Absolute certainty is no more attainable in metaphysics than it is in any other field of rational inquiry and it is unfair to criticize metaphysics for failing to deliver what no other discipline - not even mathematics - is expected to deliver.