Quotes About Rational

Reason is not a tyrannical God like Allah, or a bloodthirsty demon like Bhowanee; Reason does not speak in my ears but gives me ears to listen with.

But we can't change the past. Imagining what might have been is a pointless exercise. That much, I knew. Rationally, at least. Emotionally, it was another issue altogether,

My brother had never been the most rational of agents, but this one was the ill zinger.

Human beings do not enter into society and political life as a result of conscious, rational decision. Communal organization comes to them naturally, though the specific ways they cooperate are shaped by environment, ideas, and culture. Indeed

Most investment banking employees are rational economic actors who know that once they've received a bonus payment, they'll have to wait an entire year for another. If you were planning to leave a firm, you never stayed more than an hour or so past bonus time if you could help it.

God as preached and lived by Jesus, the Enlightenment writers put human non-exclusionary justice ahead of the law. This rational philosophy did not condemn according to a set of rules but demanded moral consistency and compassion from those who would judge. Enlightenment thinkers jettisoned the ugly, exclusionary and magical parts of the religion that grew up bearing Christ's name. Their goal was what Ellul called on the Church to do in Jesus and Marx:

When they're older, maybe my grandchildren will embrace apophatic theology, the theology of not knowing. Maybe they will look for ways to make the irrational rational by hiding behind words like "mystery" in order to sustain their faith. Apophatic theology teaches that the divine is ineffable and recognized only when it's felt.

The prophecies are not literal, Mistress," OreSeur said. "They're metaphors - expressions of hope. Or, at least, that is how I have always seen them. Perhaps your Terris prophecies are the same? Expressions of a belief that if the people were in danger, their gods would send a Hero to protect them? In this case, the vagueness would be intentional - and rational. The prophecies were never meant to mean something specific, but more to speak of a general feeling. A general hope.

The absurdity of opera lies in the fact that rational elements are used and three-dimensional reality is aimed at while at the same time everything is neutralized by the music.

When we are experience shame we are often thrown into crisis mode... In this mode, the neocortex is bypassed and our acess to advanced, rational, calm thinking and processing of emotion all but disappears...we find ourselves becoming aggressive, wanting to run and hide and feeling paralyzed...

Aristotle said I am a rational animal; I say I am an angel with an incredible capacity for beer.

Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning.

Traditional economics is based on imaginary creatures sometimes referred to as 'Homo economicus.' I call them Econs for short. Econs are amazingly smart and are free of emotion, distraction or self-control problems. Think Mr. Spock from 'Star Trek.'

Facts don't care about your feelings.

As R. C. learned from Edwards, truths that ignite the passion are both rational ("'Tis Rational") and biblical ("'Tis Biblical"). R. C. was both laying a foundation for his future teaching ministry and establishing a pattern that he would follow all of his life, a pattern of Bible study, not just Bible reading.

Never make a decision when you are in panic or drunk

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

The case can be made that the introduction of caffeine to Europe in the seventeenth century fostered a new, more rational (and sober) way of thinking that helped give rise to the age of reason and the Enlightenment.

Part of the power of the ego flows from its command of one's rational faculties.)

In science fiction, telepaths often communicate across language barriers, since thoughts are considered to be universal. However, this might not be true. Emotions and feelings may well be nonverbal and universal, so that one could telepathically send them to anyone, but rational thinking is so closely tied to language that it is very unlikely that complex thoughts could be sent across language barriers. Words will still be sent telepathically in their original language.

political movements rest not so much on rational attitudes as on fantasies, images, words, and archetypes that come together to make up this or that political kitsch.

Ingerii nu sunt partizanii Binelui, ci ai creatiei divine. Diavolul, dimpotriva, este cel ce nu recunoaste sensul rational al lumii divine. [...] Binele nu implica neaparat avantajul ingerilor asupra demonilor, ci presupune mentinerea unui echilibru aproximativ intre puterile celor doua tabere.

Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.

Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life.