Gardening is not a rational act.
There are two kinds of terrorism. Rational terrorism such as Palestinian terrorism and apocalyptic terrorism like Sept. 11. You have to distinguish between the two.
All rational beings have an agency of their own; and according to their own choice they will be saved or damned.
Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.
I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.
Gratitude is the first sign of a thinking, rational creature.
These 2. 3 million prisoners, somehow we've convinced ourselves that's normal and rational, more prisoners than soldiers, more prisoners than China, more than one per cent of the adult population, seven times the incarceration rate of Canada or any Western European country.
Now the soul of man is divided into two parts, one of which has a rational principle in itself, and the other, not having a rational principle in itself, is able to obey such a principle. And we call a man in any way good because he has the virtues of these two parts.
It's all emotion. But there's nothing wrong with emotion. When we are in love, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are on vacation, we are not rational; we are emotional.
I've always wanted to make the world a more rational place. I'm still working on it.
What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.
No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history.
Tragedy speaks not of secular dilemmas which may be resolved by rational innovation, but of the unalterable bias toward inhumanity and destruction in the drift of the world.
The belief that rational and quantifiable disciplines such as science can be used to perfect human society is no less absurd than a belief in magic, angels, and divine intervention.
You cannot be a rational subject without veto-control on the level of mental action.
We have a high moral responsibility to be rational
Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.
Man is many things, but he is not rational.
-But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.
Capitalism is the sorcerer's apprentice: it has summoned up powers which have spun wildly out of control and now threaten to destroy us. The task of socialism is not to spur on those powers but to bring them under rational human control.