Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. R. D. Laing Scottish Psychologist More R. D. Laing Quotes 2
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. Richard Dawkins English Scientist More Richard Dawkins Quotes 1
While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser. Karl Marx German Philosopher More Karl Marx Quotes 1
The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialisation of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the essence of religion and manifestation of an extreme specialisation of the intuitive mind, shows very beautifully the unity and complementary nature of the rational and intuitive modes of consciousness; of the yang and the yin. Fritjof Capra Austrian Physicist More Fritjof Capra Quotes 1
First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker. Andrew Bernstein American Philosopher More Andrew Bernstein Quotes 1
The role of a town administrator is to provide factual information for elected policy makers to make rational and informed decisions. It is incumbent on the administrator to present the most accurate information. Bruce R. Keiser More Bruce R. Keiser Quotes 1
Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true. Dean Inge English Author More Dean Inge Quotes 1
TO fear God, is one of the first and greatest Duties of his rational Creatures. Charles Inglis Canadian Clergyman More Charles Inglis Quotes 0
Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science. Muhammad Iqbal Pakistani Poet More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes 0
In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command. Muhammed Iqbal Indian Poet More Muhammed Iqbal Quotes 0
Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. William James American Philosopher More William James Quotes 0
I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us. Thomas Jefferson American President More Thomas Jefferson Quotes 0
Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities. Arthur Keith Scottish Scientist More Arthur Keith Quotes 0
I think the Democratic Party has picked a lot of the wrong candidates, the kind that Middle America, or people who are more down the middle and more rational, can't side with. I think that's been the problem. Glenn Danzig American Musician More Glenn Danzig Quotes 0
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else. Lee Iacocca American Businessman More Lee Iacocca Quotes 0
Clearly the skyscraper is the solution to rational living in high-density populations, because it allows people to use mass transit in order to move people around. Carol Willis More Carol Willis Quotes 0
Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile. Carter Heyward More Carter Heyward Quotes 0
The question I would ask is: Would you consider listing the species today? Most rational people say no. Chuck Schwartz More Chuck Schwartz Quotes 0
The market for wedding dresses is more often than not led by emotion and aspiration rather than rational decisions and financial constraints. Claire Birks More Claire Birks Quotes 0
Nonsense ought to be treated as nonsense wherever it be found, and had this been done in the rational manner it ought to have been done, instead of intimating and mincing the matter as has been too much the case, the nonsense and false doctrine of th. Curtis McDougall More Curtis McDougall Quotes 0
The rational individualist is not the enemy of benevolence or civility, but their truest exemplar. David Kelley More David Kelley Quotes 0
I think the more rational explanation is that the excision of a five-to-six-foot leech from the surface of a human body means that that body is going to have more of its own blood in its own veins. Unless the leech finds another body, it is going to go hungry. Dave Sim More Dave Sim Quotes 0
If he decided to kill himself, I don't know where he was at, whether it was depression or a rational act. I suppose suicide could be rationally justified as an alternative to being held in our prisons. David Barrow More David Barrow Quotes 0
Obsessing that much about your children is rational and it pays off. David Brooks Canadian Editor More David Brooks Quotes 0