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• Since reason is man’s basic means of survival, that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; that which negates, opposes or destroys it is the evil.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Evil

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.21, Penguin

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• The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

  Ayn Rand

  Moral, Reason, Accepting

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.961, Penguin

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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... An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.... Power is not alluring to pure minds and is not with them the primary principle of contest.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Men, Mind

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• No advocate of reason can claim the right to force his ideas on others. No advocate of the free mind can claim the right to force the minds of others. No rational society, no co-operation, no agreement, no understanding, no discussion are possible among men who propose to substitute guns for rational persuasion.

  Ayn Rand

  Gun, Men, Ideas

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.48, Penguin

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• It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth.

  Josiah Warren

  Real, Sound, Corny

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• Individualism regards man - every man - as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being. Individualism holds that a civilized society, or any form of association, cooperation or peaceful co-existence among men, can be achieved only on the basis of the recognition of individual rights - and that a group, as such, has no rights other than the individual rights of its members.

  Ayn Rand

  Independent, Men, Rights

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.231, Penguin

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• Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Creativity, People, Way

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson on His Books". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• The argument for collectivism is simple if false; it is an immediate emotional argument. The argument for individualism is subtle and sophisticated; it is an indirect rational argument. And the emotional faculties are more highly developed in most men than the rational, paradoxically or especially even in those who regard themselves as intellectuals.

  Milton Friedman

  Simple, Men, Emotional

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• The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents.

  John Polkinghorne

  Happy Accidents, Transparency, Remarkable

  John Polkinghorne, Nicholas Beale (2009). “Questions of Truth: Fifty-one Responses to Questions about God, Science, and Belief”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Refuse any image that could have a rational meaning or any memory or culture

  Luis Bunuel

  Memories, Culture, Refuse

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• Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner

  H. L. Mencken

  Law, Intimidation, Made

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.260, Vintage

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• The Christian faith does not call for us to put our minds on the shelf, to fly in the face of common sense and history, or to make a leap of faith into the dark. The rational person, fully apprised of the evidence, can confidently believe.

  William Lane Craig

  Christian, Believe, Dark

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• 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

  Giving, Community, Mental Health

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• I am continually calming the restless scanning of my rational mind in order to perceive the finer energies that enable me to unitively merge with everything around me.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Order, Mind, Energy

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• I think the more rational explanation is that the excision of a five-to-six-foot leech from the surface of a human body means that that body is going to have more of its own blood in its own veins. Unless the leech finds another body, it is going to go hungry.

  Dave Sim

  Mean, Thinking, Feet

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• I have a reverence for medicine because I hero-worshiped my father [a former doctor], and because I admire doctors, I admire study, empiricism and rational thought. I don't study, empiricize or think rationally myself - but I admire it in others.

  Hugh Laurie

  Father, Hero, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Hugh Laurie from Dec 11, 2011

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• Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

  Plato

  Love Is, Desire, World

  Plato, Alexander Nehamas, Paul Woodruff (1995). “Phaedrus”, p.25, Hackett Publishing

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• Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Goal, Raw Materials, Purpose

  Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.221, Modern Library

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• We should respect each other as rational beings by trying to achieve our goals through reason and persuasion rather than threats and coercion.

  Ron Paul

  Goal, Trying, Coercion

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• Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document? We now know pretty well where the various books came from, and about when they were written. We know that they were written by human beings who had no knowledge of science, little knowledge of life, and were influenced by the barbarous morality of primitive times, and were grossly ignorant of most things that men know today.

  Clarence Darrow

  Believe, Book, Men

  "Why I Am an Agnostic: Including Expressions of Faith from a Protestant, a Catholic and a Jew". Book by Clarence Darrow, 1929.

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• Dub music is like a long echo delay, looping through time...turning the rational musical order into an ocean of sensation.

  David Toop

  Ocean, Echoes, Order

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• I think women are really vicious in the work place, they're really jealous, really competitive. Women are emotional, they cry in toilets. The sisterhood only extends as far as the kitchen door. Men talk in logic and rational terms, they don't squark and make a noise.

  Katie Hopkins

  Jealous, Sisterhood, Men

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• In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Piano, America

  Oscar Wilde, Matthew Hofer, Gary Scharnhorst (2010). “Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews”, p.180, University of Illinois Press

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• Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either cogent demonstration or sophistry. For it strikes him with two terrible weapons, Intuition and Beauty, and at the single root in him of all his energies... Art and Poetry awaken the dreams of man, and his longings, and reveal to him some of the abysses he has in himself.

  Jacques Maritain

  Dream, Art, Men

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• One of the essential differences between the liberal and conservative worldview is that the liberals believe in rationality, whereas conservative believe that human events are ordered by forces that are beyond the ability of our rational mind to understand or control.

  Thom Hartmann

  Believe, Differences, Mind

  "книги▼ Моя библиотека Моя история Книги в Google Play Cracking the Code: How to Win Hearts, Change Minds, and Restore America's Original Vision". Book by Thom Hartmann, 2009.

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