Rational Quotes

Sometimes knowing what's right isn't a rational decision, or even what works on paper. Sometimes lea...

Four times during the first six days they were assembled and briefed and then sent back. Once, they ...

As I see it the world is undoubtedly in need of a new religion, and that religion must be founded on...

Gardening is not a rational act.

Think of yourselves as pearls. We, sitting in our rows, eyes down, we make her salivate morally. We ...

It was very bad if the council had resorted to recruiting men. By tradition men were our last line o...

Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. ...

It is one of the greatest Curses visited upon Mankind, he told me, that they shall fear where no Fea...

To some extent the romantic condemnation of rationality stems from the very effectiveness of rationa...

What’s emerging from the pattern of my own life is the for belief that the crisis is being caused by...

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of soc...

According to the most common interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus will return only after thing...

My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.

Annie clouded up. For a second, he thought she was going to erupt, and flinched. She saw that...and ...

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve o...

Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness, and an attempt to avoid, by trickery, the rules of the game as...

So I do not pray. I accept the means at my disposal for working out my destiny. It seems to me that ...

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are mode...

The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, ...

Man’s life, as required by his nature, is not the life of a mindless brute, of a looting thug or a m...

Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the sour...

A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to prot...

A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Righ...

Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. ...

There is a morality of reason, a morality proper to man, and Man’s Life is its standard of value.All...

To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent t...

That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call ‘free will’ i...

Are you seeking to know what is wrong with the world? All the disasters that have wrecked your world...

Reality is that which exists; the unreal does not exist; the unreal is merely that negation of exist...

Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice — and the alternative hi...

Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification...

Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man—every man—is an end in himself, he exists for hi...

Happiness is the successful state of life, pain is an agent of death. Happiness is that state of con...

Sweep aside those hatred-eaten mystics, who pose as friends of humanity and preach that the highest ...

Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free t...

To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an enti...

Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it. Reason is t...

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is o...

This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence...

Man’s life is the standard of morality, but your own life is its purpose . If existence on earth is ...

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that existence exists, that nothing can alter the truth a...

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing...

No, you do not have to live as a man; it is an act of moral choice. But you cannot live as anything ...

...he had acquired the conviction that one had to concern oneself with the rational, not the insane—...

Since life requires a specific course of action, any other course will destroy it. A being who does ...

Whatever the degree of your knowledge, these two—existence and consciousness—are axioms you cannot e...

I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fi...

Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.

The belief that rational and quantifiable disciplines such as science can be used to perfect human s...

Other folk thought the Rage was simple bloodlust, a berserk savagery that neither knew nor cared wha...

I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational...

In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion st...

Fuck rational thought

Fighting is found everywhere in the animal kingdom and nowhere so much as among human animals. Anima...

Experience cannot beat logic, and interpretations of observational evidence which are not in line wi...