Rational Quotes - Page 26

• 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

  Party, Thinking, America

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• Every sane person has to find every day some manner of accommodating the impossible, some way of covering up for the failures of the rational world. This might actually be a reasonable definition of sanity.

  Robert Boswell

  Covering, World, Definitions

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• As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.

  David Korten

  Practice, Long, Rogues

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• I cannot see that any rational American. . . could conceivably try to fulfill the major national purposes of the United States through the United Nations. It would be comparable to the United States seeking to pass its legislation through the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

  Charles Lichenstein

  Trying, Purpose, United States

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• Apathy is a rational reaction to a system that no longer represents, hears or addresses the vast majority of people.

  Russell Brand

  People, Majority, Apathy

  "Russell Brand takes on the crisis of civilisation. But what now?" by Nafeez Ahmed, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2013.

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• Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse,
  and the rational need for a mate in life

  Leo Tolstoy

  Doe, Needs, Mates

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• It is the will of God that we live not only as rational beings, but as "new men" regenerated by the Holy Spirit in Christ. It is His will that we reach out for our inheritance, that we answer His call to be His sons. We are born men without our consent, but the consent to be sons of God has to be elicited by our own free will.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Son, Men

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.60, Shambhala Publications

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• Happiness is normally the prime search of every rational human being. One way to derive increasing happiness during the year we have just entered is to strive diligently to promote the happiness of others, to think of them first, yourself second. Happiness is the greatest tonic, the greatest elixir, of all. Worry is among the worst poisons. One sensible New Year resolution: I will do my utmost to have consideration for others, to exercise usefulness, to radiate happiness, to conquer worrying over things I cannot possibly remedy.

  B. C. Forbes

  Happiness, New Year, Exercise

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• The Mother's knowledge of unity, her powers of sensitivity, humility, and balance, and her infinite respect for the miracle of all life have now to be invoked by each of us and practiced if the 'masculine' rational imbalance of our civilization is to be righted before its too late.

  Andrew Harvey

  Mother, Humility, Civilization

  Andrew Harvey (2012). “Radical Passion: Sacred Love and Wisdom in Action”, p.187, North Atlantic Books

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• Is management rational?

  Warren Buffett

  Investing, Management

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• Religions are tough. Either they make no contentions which are subject to disproof or they quickly redesign doctrine after disproof. ... near the core of the religious experience is something remarkably resistant to rational inquiry.

  Carl Sagan

  Religious, Science, Experience

  Carl Sagan (1979). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”, Random House Inc

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• The belief that rational and quantifiable disciplines such as science can be used to perfect human society is no less absurd than a belief in magic, angels, and divine intervention.

  Chris Hedges

  Atheist, Angel, Perfect

  Chris Hedges (2009). “When Atheism Becomes Religion: America's New Fundamentalists”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery.

  Zoë Heller

  Atheist, Imagination, Mind

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• Upon this law, depend the natural rights of mankind, the supreme being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving and beatifying that existence. He endowed him with rational faculties, by the help of which, to discern and pursue such things, as were consistent with his duty and interest, and invested him with an inviolable right to personal liberty, and personal safety.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Mean, Men, Rights

  Alexander Hamilton (1842). “The Official and Other Papers of the Late Major-General Alexander Hamilton: Comp. Chiefly from the Originals in the Possession of Mrs. Hamilton ...”, p.76

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• These are no ordinary claims; and it seems hardly possible for a rational being to regard them with even a subdued interest; much less to treat them with mere indifference and contempt. If not true they are little else than the pretensions of a bold imposture, which not satisfied with having already enslaved millions of the human race, seeks to continue its encroachments upon human liberty, until all nations be subjected under its iron rule.

  Simon Greenleaf

  Iron, Race, Liberty

  Simon Greenleaf (1995). “The Testimony of the Evangelists: The Gospels Examined by the Rules of Evidence”, p.10, Kregel Publications

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• The will to believe chases out the rational mind, whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.

  Philip K. Dick

  Believe, Umpires, Two

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The Transmigration of Timothy Archer”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Human beings are born and begin their evolution through the great spiral of consciousness, moving from archaic to magic to mythic to rational to perhaps integral, and from there perhaps into genuinely transpersonal domains. But for every person that moves into integral or higher, dozens are born into the archaic.

  Ken Wilber

  Moving, Magic, Dozen

  Ken Wilber (2001). “A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality”, p.56, Shambhala Publications

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• If we suddenly plant our foot, and say, - I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch any food or fabric which I do not know to be innocent, or deal with any person whose whole manner of life is not clear and rational, we shall stand still. Whose is so? Not mine; not thine; not his. But I think we must clear ourselves each one by the interrogation, whether we have earned our bread to-day by the hearty contribution of our energies to the common benefit? and we must not cease to tend to the correction of these flagrant wrongs, by laying one stone aright every day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Thinking, Feet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1170, Delphi Classics

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• I want to say, and this is very important: at the end we lucked out. It was luck that prevented nuclear war. We came that close to nuclear war at the end. Rational individuals: Kennedy was rational; Khrushchev was rational; Castro was rational. Rational individuals came that close to total destruction of their societies. And that danger exists today.

  Robert McNamara

  War, Luck, Important

  "The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara". Documentary, August 30, 2003.

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• Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.

  John Milton

  Men, Devil, Shame

  John Milton (1853). “The Paradise lost”, p.79

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• To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Action, Life Is

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.961, Penguin

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• I just don't understand why the idea of the universe creating itself is a rational one

  Dennis Prager

  Ideas, Creating, Universe

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• Light and the rational forms are locked in combat; light sets them into motion, bends what is straight, makes parallels oval, inscribes circles in the intervals, makes the intervals active.

  Paul Klee

  Light, Circles, Oval

  Paul Klee (2012). “Paul Klee”, p.98, Parkstone International

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• A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Emotion, Source

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.301, Penguin

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• Humans alone are created as rational beings in the image of God, capable of a relationship with God and given by him the capacity to understand the universe in which they live.

  John Lennox

  Capacity, Given, Relationship With God

  John Lennox (2011). “Gunning for God: Why the New Atheists are Missing the Target”, p.28, Lion Books

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