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Don't mistake passion and purpose for demagoguery. I choose emotion over apathy. Being completely rational is overrated. – Nicole AmesburyRate it:
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided. – John LockeRate it:
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. – Bertrand RussellRate it:
Principal Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul. – Billy MadisonRate it:
Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelRate it:
Using the philosophical language —Some people are less rational than others because it’s not given to every mind to think straight. – Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:
Using the psychological language—Some people are less rational than others, because they are caught up in BEING instead of focusing in BECOMING too. Time is continuous. – Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:
We have to stop pretending that we are dealing with a rational counter-party. You know, these people are caging children at the border. – Flavio VolpeRate it:
You must become a rational being that is capable to balance everything, big and small acts in life. – Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:
The desires of man are frequently more influential than their rational thought. – RJ Intindola – (Gandolfo)Rate it:
I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking. – Albert EinsteinRate it:
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success. – Brian AdamsRate it:
Freedom of speech is useless without freedom of thought. And I fear that the politics of protest is shutting out the process of thought, so necessary to rational discussion. We are faced with the Ten Commandments of Protest:Thou Shalt Not Allow Thy Opponent to Speak. Thou Shalt Not Set Forth a Program of Thine Own. Thou Shalt Not Trust Anybody Over Thirty. Thou Shalt Not Honor Thy Father or Thy Mother. Thou Shalt Not Heed the Lessons of History. Thou Shalt Not Write Anything Longer than a Slogan. Thou Shalt Not Present a Negotiable Demand. Thou Shalt Not Accept Any Establishment Idea. Thou Shalt Not Revere Any but Totalitarian Heroes. Thou Shalt Not Ask Forgiveness for Thy Transgressions, Rather Thou Shalt Demand Amnesty for Them. – Spiro AgnewRate it:
There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy. – Blaise PascalRate it:
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. – Oscar WildeRate it:
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner. – Norman DouglasRate it:
Asking for a ceasefire without reaching a political roadmap first, is not rational and convincing. – Suhail ShaheenRate it:
Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory. – Ralph Waldo EmersonRate it:
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. – Salman RushdieRate it:
Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind. – Robertson DaviesRate it:
Creation from something is more rational than creation from nothing. – Dudley SharpRate it:
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. – Horace MannRate it:
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics -- a rational ethics -- as a precondition of rebirth. – Ayn RandRate it:
For the first time in history, the rational and the good are fully armed in the battle against evil. Here we finally find the answer to our paradox; now we can understand the nature of the social power held by evil. Ultimately, the evil, the irrational, truly has no power. The evil men’s control of morality is transient; it lives on borrowed time made possible only by the errors of the good. In time, as more honest men grasp the truth, evil’s stranglehold will be easily broken. – Andrew BernsteinRate it:

Don't mistake passion and purpose for demagoguery. I choose emotion over apathy. Being completely rational is overrated.

– Nicole AmesburyRate it:

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.

– John LockeRate it:

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

– Bertrand RussellRate it:

Principal Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

– Billy MadisonRate it:

Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.

– Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelRate it:

Using the philosophical language —Some people are less rational than others because it’s not given to every mind to think straight.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

Using the psychological language—Some people are less rational than others, because they are caught up in BEING instead of focusing in BECOMING too. Time is continuous.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

We have to stop pretending that we are dealing with a rational counter-party. You know, these people are caging children at the border.

– Flavio VolpeRate it:

You must become a rational being that is capable to balance everything, big and small acts in life.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

The desires of man are frequently more influential than their rational thought.

– RJ Intindola – (Gandolfo)Rate it:

I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.

– Albert EinsteinRate it:

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

– Brian AdamsRate it:

Freedom of speech is useless without freedom of thought. And I fear that the politics of protest is shutting out the process of thought, so necessary to rational discussion. We are faced with the Ten Commandments of Protest:Thou Shalt Not Allow Thy Opponent to Speak. Thou Shalt Not Set Forth a Program of Thine Own. Thou Shalt Not Trust Anybody Over Thirty. Thou Shalt Not Honor Thy Father or Thy Mother. Thou Shalt Not Heed the Lessons of History. Thou Shalt Not Write Anything Longer than a Slogan. Thou Shalt Not Present a Negotiable Demand. Thou Shalt Not Accept Any Establishment Idea. Thou Shalt Not Revere Any but Totalitarian Heroes. Thou Shalt Not Ask Forgiveness for Thy Transgressions, Rather Thou Shalt Demand Amnesty for Them.

– Spiro AgnewRate it:

There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.

– Blaise PascalRate it:

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

– Oscar WildeRate it:

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

– Norman DouglasRate it:

Asking for a ceasefire without reaching a political roadmap first, is not rational and convincing.

– Suhail ShaheenRate it:

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

– Ralph Waldo EmersonRate it:

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

– Salman RushdieRate it:

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

– Robertson DaviesRate it:

Creation from something is more rational than creation from nothing.

– Dudley SharpRate it:

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

– Horace MannRate it:

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics -- a rational ethics -- as a precondition of rebirth.

– Ayn RandRate it:

For the first time in history, the rational and the good are fully armed in the battle against evil. Here we finally find the answer to our paradox; now we can understand the nature of the social power held by evil. Ultimately, the evil, the irrational, truly has no power. The evil men’s control of morality is transient; it lives on borrowed time made possible only by the errors of the good. In time, as more honest men grasp the truth, evil’s stranglehold will be easily broken.

– Andrew BernsteinRate it:

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