Rational Quotes

The brain, knowing that a person can't live forever in this world, rationaliz...

The brain, knowing that a person can't live forever in this world, rationalizes a future, or other-dimensional, world in which immortality is possible. In other words, religion is the earliest form of science fiction. ...Philip Jose Farmer
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"In love with insanit...

"In love with insanity, I’m fed up with wisdom and rationality." --Rumi
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"Only exceptionally rat...

"Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd." β€” Allan Goldfein
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"Growing up is mostly about understanding why t...

"Growing up is mostly about understanding why things are different from what they should be in a rational world. Read Dilbert." -- The Bullsh** Bin
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"A rational society is not one in which pe...

"A rational society is not one in which people become sages, but one in which they stop revering idiots." ~ Jakub BoΕΌydar WiΕ›niewski
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"Rational hatred is t...

"Rational hatred is the pioneering tool in human development" - unknown
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"World domination is such an ugly phrase, I prefer ...

"World domination is such an ugly phrase, I prefer to call it world optimization" - Harry James Potter Evans Verres (Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality)
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Idealism is a wonderful thing, all y...

Idealism is a wonderful thing, all you really need is someone rational to put it proper use. β€”Kerr Avon, Blake's 7
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"Rational arguments don't usually work...

"Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people." β€” Doris Egan
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β€œThe irrationally rational...

β€œThe irrationally rational is the human who believes they are reasonable” - KJ Ashburn
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"Beware of being too rational. In the coun...

"Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched." - Aldous Huxley
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"The emotional ta...

"The emotional tail wags the rational dog" - Jonathan Haidt
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"The emotions of fear or insecurity don’t always obey rational considerations. They...

"The emotions of fear or insecurity don’t always obey rational considerations. They may be exaggerated or even paranoid; but once a whole population is afraid, we are dealing with the reality of the fear rather than the reality of the threat." -Amin Maalouf
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"But beauty has its own laws, inconsistent with Christian morality. As a woman...

"But beauty has its own laws, inconsistent with Christian morality. As a woman, I feel free to protest that men today are pilloried for something that was rational and honorable in Greece at the height of its civilization." - Camille Paglia
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"The mind's ability to r...

"The mind's ability to rationalize its own shortcomings is unlimited." -Heinlein
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"Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it β€” turns i...

"Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it β€” turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself β€” so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal." - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational min...

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. - Albert Einstein
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"Our great danger in this life is not that we...

"Our great danger in this life is not that we aim too high and fail, but that we aim too low and succeed" - The Rational Male by Rollo Tomassi
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β€œWhen I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final...

β€œWhen I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will learn; one of us will win, but both will profit” -Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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"Only exceptionally rat...

"Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd." β€” Allan Goldfein
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"I wonder who defined man as a rat...

"I wonder who defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given." -Oscar Wilde
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β€œTrying to understand superstition ration...

β€œTrying to understand superstition rationally is like trying to pick up something made of wood by using a magnet” - Philip Pullman
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β€œNo rational argument will have a rati...

β€œNo rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.” ― Karl Popper
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"I’m not irratio...

"I’m not irrational. You’re rationality is just small. "
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"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational m...

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." - Einstein
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"To the extent that we are...

"To the extent that we are rational we share the same identity." - Rebecca Goldstein
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"The perspective of distributed Bayesian inference therefor...

"The perspective of distributed Bayesian inference therefore reveals how collective rationality emerges from the boundedly rational decision mechanisms people use."β€”Krafft et al, 2016
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"A full-grown horse or dog, is beyond comparison a more rational, and more conversable animal, t...

"A full-grown horse or dog, is beyond comparison a more rational, and more conversable animal, than an infant of a day or even a month, old. But suppose the case were otherwise, what would it avail? The question is not, Can they reason?, nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?" - Jeremy Bentham
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"Injustice is a kind of blasphemy. Nature designe...

"Injustice is a kind of blasphemy. Nature designed rational beings for each other's sake: to help-not harm-one another, as they deserve." Marcus Aurelius
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"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational min...

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift" -Albert Einstein
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"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational m...

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift." - Einstein
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"What we call rational grounds for our b...

"What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts". -Thomas Huxley
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"You are beyond mad," said Locke after several moments of silent, furious thought. "Full-on ...

"You are beyond mad," said Locke after several moments of silent, furious thought. "Full-on barking madness is a state of rational bliss to which you may not aspire. Men living in gutters and drinking their own piss would shun your company. You are a prancing lunatic." β€”Scott Lynch
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Politics must be more than marketing. Politics and leadership are about engaging the p...

Politics must be more than marketing. Politics and leadership are about engaging the public in a rational discussion and deliberation about what is best....If it's not that, if its Freudian, then why not let business do it, business can do it better. - Robert Reich
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"A full-grown horse or dog, is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as a more conversable an...

"A full-grown horse or dog, is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as a more conversable animal, than an infant of a day or even a month, old. Suppose the case were otherwise, what would it avail? The question is not, Can they reason?, nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?" -Jeremy Bentham
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"I think I got off on the wrong pla...

"I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here." -Robert Anton Wilson
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Rationality is avoi...

Rationality is avoidance of systemic ruin.β€”Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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"It's not that life is rational or that life is ir...

"It's not that life is rational or that life is irrational, but that it is almost rational leaving behind no congruency, predictability; sometimes no hope."
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"True pessimists see themselves as such-- p...

"True pessimists see themselves as such-- pseudo-pessimists think them self to be rational, and are actually just cranky curmudgeons."
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"music does not pass through rati...

"music does not pass through rationality to express its essence, it crosses right to our emotion." -Unknown
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"If you think about it rationally...

"If you think about it rationally, you don't really need turtles." - Ayumu "Osaka" Kasuga (Azumanga Daioh)
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"A cultural system divided against itself cannot behave i...

"A cultural system divided against itself cannot behave in a rational manner." - Anthropologist Leslie White. (One of the "House Divided" quotes from www.QuoteCounterquotes.com)
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"The idea there is that we have gone sick by following a path of...

"The idea there is that we have gone sick by following a path of untrammelled rationalism, male dominance, attention to the visible surface of things, practicality, bottom-line-ism." - Terence McKenna
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