Fyodor Dostoevsky
Novelist, Philosopher
"If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen."
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Steve Jobs
Entrepreneur
"You have to have a lot of passion for what you do... because if you don't, any rational person would give up."
Steve Jobs
Entrepreneur
"Without passion, any rational person would give up!"
U.G. Krishnamurti
Philosopher
"I am not anti-rational, just unrational. You may infer a rational meaning in what I say or do, but it is your doing, not mine."
Boethius
Philosopher, Theologian
"A person is an individual substance of a rational nature."
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"Darwinism removed the whole idea of God as the creator from the sphere of rational discussion."
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"Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings"
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"We have a high moral responsibility to be rational"
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"I contend that most emotional distress is best understood as a rational response to sick societies."
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"What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational"
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"We should exterminate all rational thought."
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"It is easier to rationalize than it is to be rational."
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"Man is many things, but he is not rational."
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"The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others."
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"With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works."
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"I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist."
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"If faith were rational , it wouldn't be -by definition- faith."
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"To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable."
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"A rational nature admits of nothing but what is serviceable to the rest of mankind."
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"There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational."
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"Investment must be rational; if you can't understand it, don't do it."
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"Can you use the rational mind to transcend itself?"
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"Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal."
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"Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all."
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"Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition."
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