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Rationally I have no hope, irrationally I believe in miracles. -- Joni Mitchell
Rationally, I was convinced that the universe without God made no sense, but that simply was not the same as believing. But I also knew that I could not argue myself, or be argued, into faith. -- Henry Grunwald
Rationally speaking, blaming one's behavior on alcohol or drugs is like blaming the ladder by which you descended into a pit, or the staircase that took you down to a cellar, for what you found there. -- Graham Joyce
Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful. -- Andy Hobsbawm
You can't 'work through worry and fear rationally,' because fear isn't rational! -- Marianne Williamson
I'm afraid of heights. Not unreasonably, but rationally afraid of heights. I think everyone is. -- Joe Rogan
The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally. -- Steven Pinker
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
Banks are run by executives, and executives protect themselves, and that does not always mean that banks are going to behave rationally. -- Daniel Kahneman
I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so. -- Richard E. Grant
For me, each game is a new challenge, which has to be dealt with rationally and systematically. At that time, every other thought fades into oblivion. -- Viswanathan Anand
Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. We can't 'rationally' transcend the kind of primal pain that such relationships can arouse. -- Marianne Williamson
One might rationally argue that individual human beings should be free choose what moral behavior they approve of, and which they don't, subject to the constraints of the law. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally. -- Ulrich Beck
People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection. -- Albert Ellis
But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor place that can advance them, but worth and merit. -- Margaret Cavendish
He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger. -- Salvatore Quasimodo
The word 'tolerance' once meant we all have the right to argue rationally for our deepest convictions in the public arena. Now it means those convictions are not even subject to rational debate. -- Nancy Pearcey
I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health. -- John Forbes Nash, Jr.
Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds. -- Herbert Simon
Well if done a lot of hard work to try and get people to act rationally, the fact that weve had 15 deviant Muslims, plus 5 or 8 others that got away does not mean that all Muslims are deviant or extremists. -- Lee Kuan Yew
One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or religion, you can still be happy knowing you are going to die after a brief time on this spinning ball. -- Robin Ince
If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share. -- Virginia Woolf
I saw my parents as model grown-ups, and their manner, their silence, informed my sense of what adulthood looked and felt like. Grown-ups behaved rationally and calmly. Grown-ups worked during the day and came home at night and sat down for drinks and passed the evening quietly. -- Caroline Knapp
There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within. -- Robert Dale Owen
Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second. -- Helen Fielding
The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease. -- James D. Watson
I am not particularly religious. But I think we do face the question of where God is, why we are created and where does life go, why we exist. That sort of thing. And it is very hard to talk about it these days, because it cannot be proven. It is hard to discuss it rationally. -- Ang Lee
China is a main energy consumer and, therefore, is also a big greenhouse gas emitter. We must use energy resources rationally and must conserve. This needs us to adjust our economic structure, transform the mode of development, to make economic development more dependent on progress of science and technology and the quality of the work force. -- Wen Jiabao
Overachievers don't think reasonably, sensibly, or rationally. -- John Eliot
We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally. -- Steven Weinberg
By setting up Berkshire Hathaway, Warren has done everything very rationally. -- Walter Schloss
In science fiction a fantastic event or development is considered rationally. -- James Gunn
We expect others to act rationally even though we are irrational. -- Scott Adams
The people who are voting for Trump are not voting rationally. -- Gene Weingarten
We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history. -- Neil Shubin
To him who looks at the world rationally the world looks rationally back. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Once you start looking at the world rationally, it becomes much more exciting. -- Robin Ince
The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge. -- Marc Bloch
No man can rationally live, worship, or love his neighbour on an empty stomach. -- Woodrow Wilson
To the rationally minded the mental processes of the intuitive appear to work backwards -- Frances G. Wickes
While most people can talk rationally about kernel design and portability, the issue of free-ness is 100% emotional. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
The whole dimension of religious belief requires transcendence, it requires going beyond what you can establish rationally. -- George Coyne
Power positions do not yield to arguments, however rationally and morally valid, but only to superior power. -- Hans Morgenthau
[Science fiction is] the attempt to deal rationally with alternate possibilities in a manner which will be entertaining. -- Lester del Rey
Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood. -- Albert Einstein
Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Don't argue or answer rationally. Let us die, and dying, reply. -- Rumi
There may be occasions when it is best to behave irrationally, but whether there are should be decided rationally. -- I. J. Good
Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists. -- Eddie Obeng
Some people talk about illogical things like love.. But then they can rationally sacrifice their relatives. - Sebastian Michaelis -- Yana Toboso
Having rationally endeavored to control nature, is he not now becoming the slave of the objects which he makes? -- Pope Paul VI
In places like universities, where everyone talks too rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear. -- Joseph Beuys
I am convinced of the afterlife, independent of theology. If the world is rationally constructed, there must be an afterlife -- Kurt GÃ¶del
Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable. -- Bernard Berenson
To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine. -- Marshall McLuhan
God may rationally be supposed to have framed so great and admirable an automaton as the world for special ends and purposes. -- Robert Boyle
The public interest may be presumed to be what men would choose if they saw clearly, thought rationally, acted disinterestedly and benevolently. -- Walter Lippmann
In daily life, reality gives us material incentives to restrain our irrationality. But what incentive do we have to think rationally about politics? -- Bryan Caplan
He supposed he knew, rationally, that she wasn't the prettiest woman in the world, but if his eyes saw any imperfections, his heart didn't care. -- Linda Howard
I never think of things rationally or intellectually. I swear, every single decision I make is just instinct and my instincts tend to be accurate. -- Neill Blomkamp
The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique nonsense -- Bertrand Russell
People do not consciously and rationally choose the form of their society. Societies develop through processes of social evolution that are not under rational human control. -- Theodore Kaczynski
Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them. -- Allen Tate
Thinking rationally is often different from "positive thinking," in that it is a realistic assessment of the situation, with a view towards rectifying the problem if possible. -- Albert Ellis
We must choose for others as we have reason to believe they would choose for themselves if they were at the age of reason and deciding rationally. -- John Rawls
That's something that rationally and logically I can't try to figure out, how somebody "transitions" so rapidly and so drastically, but I don't worry about it now. -- Gaby Hoffmann
In order to succeed, you have to live dangerously.. as long as the danger is rationally accepted and as long as the rewards far outweigh the risk. -- Sumner Redstone
Risk management is a more realistic term than safety. It implies that hazards are ever-present, that they must be identified, analyzed, evaluated and controlled or rationally accepted. -- Jerome F. Lederer
Not only our moral life, but even our use of theoretical reason - on which we rely in rationally inquiring into nature - presupposes that we are free. -- Allen W. Wood
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician. -- Martin Gardner
Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Enlightenment dream is a good one. The idea that people should rationally appreciate their place in nature, assess threats and possibilities, and regulate their behavior in response is inspiring. -- Dale Jamieson
Sending people into space is very important culturally. That's really the justification. You cannot rationally justify it on the basis of the science and technology we get out of it. -- Kip Thorne
Despite all that I know rationally, and everything that I can put into words, I can say that I have difficulty giving up the notion of the nobility of art. -- Aleksandar Hemon
Nature was tough, it could be dangerous, but unlike Dr. Cable or shay, or peris-unlike people in general-it made sense. The problems it threw at you could be solved rationally. -- Scott Westerfeld
Fichte takes an I or free will to be not a thing or being but an act which is not undetermined but self-determined, in accordance with reasons or norms rationally self-given. -- Allen W. Wood
Socialized medicine must fail for the same reasons all socialism must fail: it offers no system for rationally allocating resources, and instead promotes the overutilization of all resources, ending in bankruptcy. -- Llewellyn Rockwell
Most writers I know move back and forth between the rational and the intuitive, though there are some who approach writing very rationally, and others who claim not to think their work through. -- Peter Turchi
When a planner speaks of implementing goals rationally, he implies that it is possible to demonstrate logically and experimentally the relationship between the proposed means and the ends they are intended to further. -- Alan A. Altshuler
Some people think emotionally more often than they think politically. Some think politically more often than they think rationally. Others never think rationally about anything at all.No judgment implied. Just an observation. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I certainly have had experiences of a sense of wonder at the world and a feeling that even though it could all be explained rationally, it still feels that there is more to it. -- Garth Nix
Knowing about the neurobiological and evolutionary basis for social behavior can soften the arrogance and self-righteousness that often attends discussions of morality. It may help us all to think a little more carefully and rationally. -- Patricia Churchland
I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health. -- John Forbes Nash, Jr.

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