Quotes About Rational

No rational man could worship a God so simply vengeful

If you decide to join up with me, I want it to be because you're making a rational choice, not because you've been pushed by passion or despair.

Only a man could come up with something so ruthless, so essentially stupid and yet brutally effective.

one of the jobs of advertising was to give the consumer rational reasons for their irrational purchases.

I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise of ... shall we say, power.

A large plural society cannot be governed without recognizing that, transcending its plural interests, there is a rational order with a superior common law.

Yes, America's vast foreign service and intelligence organs may disagree with that assessment. And some of Israel's most senior intelligence figures regard Iran as dangerous, but rational. But in Netanyahu's view, diplomacy has had its moment.

I did not spend a great deal of my time worrying about anything—planning, yes, making sure that things went just right on my Special Nights Out. But worrying truly seemed to be an emotional activity rather than a rational one, and until now it had never furrowed my forehead. But

Although a mere unknown connection might not seem terribly damning evidence of anything to a rational being, I knew enough about the drug world to know that it has very few rational residents. They

he'd never been a people person. He was a science person. A mind person.

Most writers I know move back and forth between the rational and the intuitive, though there are some who approach writing very rationally, and others who claim not to think their work through.

Sometimes, I work a little more from emotion than I do from rational thought.

Brits, Scandinavians, Finns, Estonians consider themselves rational, logical, unencumbered by emotional arguments; we are businesslike, stubborn, and hard-working.

In Piaget's developmental epistemology, sensorimotor intelligence serves as a bridge between biological functioning and rational thought.

Furthermore, biological functioning, sensorimotor intelligence, and rational thought are based on the same self-organizing processes (i.e., functional invariants).

History is particularly important in throwing light on the source of our attitudes about sex because many of the assumptions we make are not necessarily scientific or rational but holdovers of past belief systems that are no longer held by modern society.

The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents.

Only the rational and useful is beautiful.

Spirit means essentially two things: 1. The power of thinking—conscious, deliberate, rational understanding. Not sense perception; that's the work of a bodily organ, like the eye. 2. The power of willing and choosing and deliberately loving. Not sensory appetite; that's the work of a bodily function, like hunger.

Since reasoning alone proved incapable of fully resolving the clash between self-interest and ethics, it is unlikely that rational argument will persuade every rational person to act ethically.

There was a silence for a while. Finally, Sloosh opened his eyes. He said, I've traced my line of thought. It's rational and analytic. No. I'm not crazy.

Fat heard in her rational tone the harp of nihilism, the twang of the void.

No rational response was possible. Her irrationality made it so. The terrible power, he thought, of illogic.

In the center of an irrational universe governed by an irrational Mind stands rational man.