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"Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing buy rational actions." »Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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"If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen." »Dostoyevsky
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"Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd." »Allan Goldfein
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"I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking." »Albert Einstein
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"In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else." »Lee Iacocca
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"I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others." »Thomas Jefferson
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"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this." »Bertrand Russell
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"Insanity -- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world." »R. D. Lang
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"Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Insanity: a perfectly rational adjustment to the insane world." »R. D. Laing
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"Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational." »Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason." »Orson Welles
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"Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason." »Oscar Wilde
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"Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago." »Horace Mann
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"One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason." »Oscar Wilde
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"The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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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." »John Locke
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"The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge." »Erich Fromm
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"If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated." »Erich Fromm
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"The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational." »Sydney Harris
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"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
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"Principal Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul." »Billy Madison
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"To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal." »Saint Augustine
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"Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success." »Brian Adams
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"Guilt resembles a sword with two edges. On the one hand, it cuts for Justice, imposing practical morality upon those who fear it. But there is another side to that weighted emotion. Conscience does not always adhere to rational judgment. Guilt is always a self-imposed burden, but it is not always rightly imposed." »R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn
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"History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it." »Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1972)
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"Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position." »Bertrand Russell
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"The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action." »Eric Hoffer
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