Top 1200 Rational Decisions Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

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

They are nonhuman persons. They are not food. If animals matter morally at all, there is one and only one rational response: go vegan. Everything else is just participation in animal exploitation.

God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.

One rational voice is dumb: over a grave The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved. Sad is Eros, builder of cities, And weeping anarchic Aphrodite.

First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker.

Guilt isn't always a rational thing, Clio realized. Guilt is a weight that will crush you whether you deserve it or not.

A philosopher may deplore the eternal discords of the human race, but he will confess, that the desire of spoil is a more rational provocation than the vanity of conquest.

We shouldn't even need the word 'atheism'. If people didn't invent ridiculous imaginary gods, rational people wouldn't have to deny them.

Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.

The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because, if you can do that, you can do anything.

Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.

In hell, sinners shall forever lay all the blame on their own wills. Hell is a rational torment by conscience.

Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile.

You won't get a rational assessment of a political party from a member, and you won't get a reasoned account of the joys of being 'linked' from somebody who's already 'in.'

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.

The better you think , the better decisions you make . the better decisions you make , the better actions you take . the better actions you take , the better results you get

I try to be rational and suppress the hope that this is for real, but hope has a way of closing its eyes to reason and it just keeps growing.

It is sometimes rational to do what is wrong, and sometimes irrational to do what is right

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.

The movement of many people through a building can be musical, if the movement is harmonious, rational, but full of life and feeling.

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

It is impossible to understand the economic system in which we are living if we try to interpret it as a rational scheme.It has to be understood as an awkward phase in a continuing process of historical development.

When you look around at the six people that you spend the most time with, that's who you are. I think that in making those decisions in who you are going to be married to, who your friends are going to be, those are really huge, critical, life decisions. Who gets to talk to you everyday, is almost like the food that you eat. It is a very huge critical situation to choose who the people are that you are spending your life with, spending your time with and who you are choosing to give your love and everything to.

The Christian image of God is that of a rational being who believes in human progress, more fully revealing himself as humans gain the capacity to better understand.

It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.

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.

Our rational, realistic goals for 'Better Call Saul' were simply that it wouldn't suck, and it wouldn't embarrass us. It didn't rise much higher than that, to be honest.

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.

In real life, I'm very rational, and I'm not very dramatic.

China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.

If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.

Our exclusive dependence on rational thought and language has obscured our natural ability to sense the flow of energy.

The kind of evidence that was put before the jurors led to less-than-rational decision-making. I think that juries are composed of good people who can be misled.

Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissingthe tarmac is merely a pallid vestigial remnant.

To me, the question of inspiration is an exercise in hindsight. The truth is, inspiration is mysterious at the time. I don't think it's ever a rational process.

It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.

The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility.

He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are willing to listen only to rational arguments.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

There is no justice, there is no rational structure to it [life]. That is just the way it is, and each person figures out some way to cope.

My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.

To me the question of inspiration is an exercise in hindsight. The truth is inspiration is mysterious at the time. I don't think it's ever a rational process.

Legal behavior is not incompatible with rational, self-interested behavior.

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

Crisis alone is not enough. There must also be a basis, though it need be neither rational nor ultimately correct, for faith in the particular candidate chosen.

Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational; and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.

Effective altruism is the form of altruism in which we bring our rational capacities to bear in order to do the most good that we can.

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.

For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.

Freedom rests on a rational distrust of government; government will always use its power to benefit the incumbent administration.

The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility

A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.

We avoid the gravest difficulties when, giving up the attempt to frame hypotheses concerning the constitution of matter, we pursue statistical inquiries as a branch of rational mechanics.

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

North Korea. Not only does North Korean have nuclear weapons, but their leadership appears to not be rational.

Rational discourse is only one way of presenting and examining an issue and by no means the best. Our new intellectuals are not aware of its limitations and of the nature of the things outside.

The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness.

At the root of all the varied manifestations of dancing, lies the common impulse to resort to movement to externalize emotional states which we cannot extemalize by rational means.

As history reminds us again and again, wars are not always made on the basis of rational calculations: often the contrary.