Quotes with rational

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  • J. G. Ballard The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Carlos Fuentes The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Albert Einstein The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Adam Weishaupt The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • Bernard Crick The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
    In Defence Of Politics Ch. 7, In Praise Of Politics, p. 143
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich The internet was supposed to make this whole business of job searching rational and simple. You could post your resume and companies would search them and they'd find you. It doesn't seem to work that way. There aren't enough jobs for experienced, college educated managers and professionals.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • George Santayana The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Bill Forsyth The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.
    Bill Forsyth
    Scottish film director and writer (1946 - )
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Blaise Pascal There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Bob Barr Unfortunately, most gun control advocates are not really interested in rational debate, and their political games simply send Alice chasing white rabbits down holes.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Marilyn French Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.
    Marilyn French
    American radical feminist author (1929 - 2009)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel What is rational is actual, and what is actual is rational.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Arthur Keith 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 anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Karl Marx While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Jane Austen With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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