Quotes About Rational

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

sabía que el camino masónico tenía más sentido. Era la confianza clara, racional y sosegada en la creación humana de una sociedad pacífica, justa y fraternal, lo que dotaba a la masonería de su belleza y encanto humanista.

Briefly stated, the true purpose of ancient philosophy was to discover a method whereby development of the rational nature could be accelerated instead of awaiting the slower processes of Nature.

After Bacchus gazed into the mirror and followed his own reflection into matter, the rational soul of the world was broken up and distributed by the Titans throughout the mundane sphere of which it is the essential nature, but the heart, or source, of it they could not: scatter.

This has suggested to some that the very structure of human thought is oppositional-that is to say, rational and associative, rather than linear and categorical.

That seems reasonable," Lucas said, because it was.

What's messed up here isn't that this guy thinks we're on a television show. What's messed up here is that as far as I can tell, at this point, it's the most rational explanation for what's going on.

It's messed up that the most rational explanation for what does go on in this ship is that a television show intrudes on our reality and warps it. But that's not the worst thing about it." "Jesus Christ," Finn said. "If that's not the worst thing, what is?" "That as far as I can tell," Jenkins said, "it's not actually a very good show.

Got a lot of sinful idears- but they seem kinda sensible

Evil people can still keep promises. Many have done just that, girl, though they are usually not promises you 'rational' people wish them to keep.

TO fear God, is one of the first and greatest Duties of his rational Creatures.

There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't.

Only the stupid and the wicked can fear rational criticism.

The Founding Fathers worried that some common impulse of passion might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. It's a rational fear, one that is played out endlessly.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

The idea that objectivity is best reached only through rational thought is a specifically Western and masculine way of thinking--one that we will challenge throughout the book.

The delegates to the peace conference after World War I "tried to impose a rational order on an irrational world.

I like the sky. It's rational to me in a way that life isn't.

I like the sky. It's rational to me in a way that life isn't. Looking at it doesn't suck the way you might think it would, given all the dying-girl-stares-at-heaven possibilities. I don't think of the sky as any kind of heaven item. I think of it as a bunch of gases and faraway echoes of things that used to be on fire

Nature is the master creator in any field. Nature does not ask us to be brilliant, it is enough to be rational. Nature is not man and it is not men's.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.

The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.

Selfishness is a bad habit. Thats why I always rationally think through my decisions to act without regard for others.