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Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.
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So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.
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A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
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A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
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A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.
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All fear is bad, and ought to be overcome not by fairy tales, but by courage and rational reflection.
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All I desire for my own burial is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely indifferent to every rational creature.
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Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
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Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
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Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.
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For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.
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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.
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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
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I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
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I get rational when I panic.
Rick Moody (2007) 46 -
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
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I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
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I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist.
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I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making - just the facts.
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