Rational Quotes - Page 29

• Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.

  Albert Ellis

  Real, World, Belief

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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.

  Albert Ellis

  Behavior, Therapists, Used

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• Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

  Brian Eno

  Ideas, Feelings, Evaluation

  "Brian Eno: The feeling that things are inevitably going to get worse" by Brian Eno, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2009.

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• Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, and identity.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Identity, Culture, Habit

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, November 2, 2009.

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• There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming, it systematically forces tens of billions of animals to suffer in ways that would be illegal if they were dogs, it is a decisive factor in the development of swine and avian flus, and so on.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Dog, Animal, Suffering

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• Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

  Anatole France

  Animal, Men, Literature

  "Le Petit Pierre". Book by Anatole France, 1918.

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• 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

  Love, Thinking, Self

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.347, Simon and Schuster

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• Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.

  Anna Freud

  Girl, Papa, Hours

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• I approve designs not because I think I am more gifted or somebody who can see ahead three or four years from now, but just to make sure that the design is a logical, rational decision, taken after analyzing pros and cons.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Taken, Thinking, Years

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• But when it comes to writing the thing that I've sort of been thinking about lately, is why? You know, is it rational? Is it logical that anybody should be expected to be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this Earth to do.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Writing, Thinking, Earth

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• To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Looks, World, Aspect

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Aakash Singh, Rimina Mohapatra (2008). “Reading Hegel: The Introductions”, p.117, re.press

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• Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Oasis, Boston, People

  Julia Ward Howe (2004). “The Hermaphrodite”, p.21, U of Nebraska Press

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• It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

  Thomas Huxley

  Belief, Forgotten, Instinct

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.310, Cambridge University Press

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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

  Inspirational, Thank You, Education

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• Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

  William Ralph Inge

  Expectations, Choices, Certain

  William Ralph Inge (1929). “Labels & Libels”

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• Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Views, Foundation, Principles

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal, University of the Punjab. Dept. of Iqbal Studies, University of the Punjab (1982). “Iqbal centenary papers”

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• In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Religious, Unconditional Love, Discipline

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• Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.

  William James

  Lying, Special, Different

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.349, Library of America

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• I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Philosophy, Greek, Religion

  "The Real Thomas Jefferson".

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• When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left side of the brain. But in the right side of the brain you have intuition and imagination. Words are not the truth; they indicate the way to go, but you need to go alone, in silence. Symbols have a language that kills the words.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Thinking, Imagination, Silence

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• What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Gun, Bystanders, Taxi Cabs

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• No one ever pretended that shopping for anything is a rational experience. If it were, would there be Fluffernutter? Laceless sneakers? Porkpie hats? Would the Chia Pet even exist?

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Sneakers, Shopping, Pet

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• I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Thinking, Intellectual, Important

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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.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Loyalty, Good Life, Passion

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• But I still read Shaw on a regular basis. What I love is the nakedness of the polemic and the irresistible good humour. For me, 'Major Barbara' is the greatest of all the plays in that it starts from the rational and proceeds to the ecstatic in a spectacular way, and leaves you very confused if you cling to Euclidean logic.

  Tony Kushner

  Confused, Love Is, Play

  "Tony Kushner: 'At first I was horrified'". Interview with Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2011.

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