Rational Quotes - Page 23

• If you scare somebody enough, they stop being rational.

  Etgar Keret

  Scare, Enough, Ifs

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• Psychologically speaking, the rational, healthy response to climate change is to say to oneself, "What can I do about this?" But that question is often answered through individual action.

  Margaret D. Klein

  Healthy, Climate, Action

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Americans should know that Iranians are just as decent, human and rational as other human beings. Sadly, the mainstream media in the U.S. regularly fails to recognize and reflect this.

  Mohammad Marandi

  Media, Being Sad, Failing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I am glad that people are trying to have a rational conversation about drugs.

  Carl Hart

  People, Drug, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I argue that we should be kind, we should be compassionate, and we should definitely be reasonable and rational, but that empathy leads us astray.

  Paul Bloom

  Empathy, Be Kind, Arguing

  "Paul Bloom: The Trouble With Empathy". Interview with Allyson Kirkpatrick, www.guernicamag.com. February 1, 2016.

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• Even the charities I give to are related to things that touch my life, like the Special Olympics. I'm not fully rational; I'm swayed by my biases and my emotions.

  Paul Bloom

  Giving, Special, Charity

  "Paul Bloom: The Trouble With Empathy". Interview with Allyson Kirkpatrick, www.guernicamag.com. February 1, 2016.

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• The divine therapy helps us integrate our animal nature with the new possibilities of rational consciousness.

  Thomas Keating

  Animal, Helping, Consciousness

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Becoming fully rational is not enough anymore; evidently it can lead to distortions of all the great human possibilities.

  Thomas Keating

  Becoming, Enough, Possibility

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• There is false of Aristotelian logic, which is so much the basis of Christianity, and to some extent, Judaism in the west. Too rational, too logical, too masculine, chauvinistic, male dominated, head over heart, mind over body, heaven different than earth and so on, rather than yin/yang, inter-being, interwoven, inseparably.

  Surya Das

  Heart, Heaven, Mind

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• There is no comfortable middle path where we get to provide a rational justification for our basic moral, religious and common sense beliefs.

  Frederick C. Beiser

  Religious, Common Sense, Middle Path

  "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.

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• Buddhist epistemologists do argue that rational analysis leads to the conclusion that rational analysis cannot give us infallible access to truth, including that one. That's not self-defeating, though; it only induces an important kind of epistemic humility and a clearer view of what we do when we reason. We engage in one more fallible human activity among many.

  Jay L. Garfield

  Buddhist, Humility, Self

  "Buddhist howls". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. December 28, 2012.

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• You cannot be a rational subject without veto-control on the level of mental action.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Levels, Action, Veto

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Politicians are enormously smart and rational. They don't have the same interests as businessmen ... But a man rises to the top of the United States. He's clawed his way out of 330 million people. OK. He didn't do that because he was dumb, or lucky, or something like that. He understands power. And he understands how to take it. And he understands how to keep it.

  George Friedman

  Smart, Men, People

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I am a secularist in the Gandhian sense of the word, not the Nehruvian one. Nehru thought religion was an antique superstition which stood in the way of rational modern politics. I side with Gandhi, who wanted religious figures out of politics but also was suspicious of purely rational politics.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Religious, Antiques, Superstitions

  "'The Buddha' & the End of Human Suffering / Pankaj Mishra in Kathmandu, Nepal". Interview with Felix Holmgren, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2008.

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• Autonomy is the capacity to act on principles that are one's own and one will exercise this capacity by means of a process of rational reflection on these principles. Autonomy is thought to be necessary for attributing political responsibility.

  Alison Assiter

  Mean, Responsibility, Exercise

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• They have a policy in China for their big companies called "Go abroad." It's a rational thing for both the company and the country to say, "We want big, successful companies." Particularly in areas where they need it: agriculture, energy, technology. I think banking, too. One or two have bought a trading house. Some have already begun expanding around the world. Of course they're going to have those ambitions. Why wouldn't they? They're just doing it methodically. It's a logical strategy and, well-executed, they will succeed.

  Jamie Dimon

  Country, Ambition, Successful

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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• Architecture, in itself, at the end of the day, is a rational profession.

  Jimenez Lai

  The End Of The Day, Architecture, Ends

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When we strive to remove all risk from childhood we also remove the foundations of a rational adulthood, and we eliminate the very experiences that will help kids grow up to be the empowered, creative, brave problem-solvers that they can and must be.

  Gever Tulley

  Growing Up, Kids, Childhood

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• Greek philosophy departs from the assumption that we can understand the world autonomously using our rational faculties. Islam is not saying this.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Philosophy, Greek, Islam

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• In England, the population explosion can be linked very clearly with the enclosure of the commons that uprooted the peasants from their land. In India, it was the same thing: the population increased at the end of the 18th century when the British took over and Indian lands were colonized. Instead of the land feeding Indian people it started to feed the British empire. So we had destitution. Destitute people who don't have their own land to feed themselves can only feed themselves by having larger numbers, therefore they multiply. It's the rational response of a dispossessed people.

  Vandana Shiva

  Land, Numbers, People

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I fear getting things wrong and messing up, and this makes no rational sense. When I'm mindful and awake, I know mistakes are part of a creative process. But when I become disconnected, I can be incredibly mean and hard on myself.

  Jaime Murray

  Mistake, Mean, Creative

  "Jaime Murray: Taking Care of Heart, Mind, and Body". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I've made it clear in my reporting that we need a rational, effective and humane system. I don't support amnesty, and for that reason amnesty groups attack me. That's fine, it's a free country. Their attacks don't give me too much concern.

  Lou Dobbs

  Country, Giving, Support

  "Fox Business Network's Lou Dobbs Says Candy Crowley 'Took Over' Debate (Q&A)". Interview with Paul Bond, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 21, 2012.

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• Being in church so often, spending those hours sitting in front of a highly symbolic array of objects, hearing those beautiful texts - it teaches a kid that there are important truths beyond the literal ones, and that we have ways to access those truths that are, let's say, super-rational.

  George Saunders

  Beautiful, Kids, Important

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. Auguts 30, 2016.

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• Index funds are the only rational alternative for almost all mutual fund investors.

  Mark Hulbert

  Alternatives, Investing, Mutual Fund

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• Only the rational and useful is beautiful.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Beauty, Beautiful

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