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Quotes About Rational

La mente intuitiva es un regalo sagrado y la mente racional es un fiel sirviente. Hemos creado una sociedad que honra al sirviente y se olvida del regalo. ALBERT EINSTEIN
~ Unknown
La mente intuitiva es un regalo sagrado y la mente racional es un fiel sirviente. Hemos creado una sociedad que honra al sirviente y se olvida del regalo.
~ Unknown
But it is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could. This is Walter Cronkite. Good night.
~ Mark Bowden
Our faith doesn't magically make our assumptions about Jesus and the Bible true. Faith can't turn a falsehood into truth. Rightly understood, it's not a blind belief in the unbelievable; it's a rational belief based on a preponderance of evidence.
~ Unknown
Thank you for calling customer service. If you're calm and rational, press 1. If you're a whiner, press 2. If you're a hot head, press 3
~ Randy Glasbergen
You cannot control faeries. Can. Not. They aren't logical or rational. They don't obey the same laws (physical, social, emotional, traffic - you name it) that we do.
~ Kiersten White, Paranormalcy
A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation
~ Albert Einstein
Labor was marching toward the goal of industrial democracy and contributing constructively toward a more rational arrangement of our domestic economy.
~ John L. Lewis
Moon couldn't think of anything reassuring to say. They were trapped inside a leviathan, standing in a tunnel gnawed out by giant parasites. Going blank with terror was a perfectly rational way to react, especially for a groundling.
~ Martha Wells
Mensah sent me a private message through the feed: I hope you're all right. Because you need me. I don't know where that came from. All right, it came from me, but she was my client, I was a SecUnit. There was no emotional contract between us. There was no rational reason for me to sound like a whiny human baby.
~ Martha Wells
For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.
~ Nathaniel Branden
Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
~ Voltaire
But surely clients will know? Aren't clients rational actors with clear demands? No.
~ Unknown
All that matters is stories feel true, they resonate....the point is not to determine the truth by a process of rational evaluation, assessment and conclusion. You choose your own reality, as if from a buffet.
~ Unknown
What mattered was not veracity, but impact....the triumph of the visceral over the rational, the deceptively simple over the honestly complex.
~ Unknown
I have no phobias. Phobias are irrational. My fears are rational and CAREFULLY CULTIVATED, like roses.
~ Maureen Johnson
It is only afterwards, once human invention has reintegrated them in the meaning of the totality, that the hazards of history can appear to be and are in fact rational without there being any place for the assumption of a hidden reason which orients them through the "ruse" of appearing in the guise of contingency.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
The intellect, like all cultural values, has created an aristocracy based on the possession of rational culture and independent of all personal ethical qualities of man. The aristocracy of intellect is hence an unbrotherly aristocracy.
~ Max Weber
actions of the Harper government remain inexplicable for most rational, thoughtful Canadians, though some have looked for an explanation in the evangelical fundamentalist religious bent of the Harper Conservatives' support base, particularly early Reform Party supporters. For this group, science itself is heresy, promoting the theory of evolution which they see as a threat to the concept of creation outlined in the book of Genesis.
~ Unknown
His was not the hatred that arises suddenly like a storm and as suddenly abates. It was, once the initial shock of anger and pain was over, a calculated thing that grew in a bloodless way.
~ Mervyn Peake
Answers are temporary things, Anne", he had said. "There will always be more questions." "And shall we dispense with our minds?" she had countered. "No", he said carefully. "Just be aware that rational answers aren't necessarily what we're looking for when we produce our questions.
~ Unknown
The collective must respect the individual and the individual must respect the collective. It's a disaster if individuals have contempt for the collective (as in far right American anarcho-capitalist libertarianism), and it's a disaster if the collective has contempt for the individual (as in communism). Meritocracy is the system that reveres both the individual and the collective, bound together by rational laws, and dialectical improvement.
~ Unknown
We seek to replace the prevailing value system based on extraverted, irrational, superstitious, ignorant, emotional narratives (Mythos), and master-slave systems embedded throughout society, with an introverted, rational, knowledgeable Logos society devoid of privilege and unhealthy master-slaves relationships. We are for the liberty of the autonomous individual within the constraints set by rational laws designed to promote the benefit of all.
~ Unknown
He has seen the bottomless nonsense of our world and has decided, like most of us, to simply try to tolerate it. He appears to have surrendered. It is rational,
~ Michael Finkel