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The Christian image of God is that of a rational being who believes in human progress.
If God is incomprehensible to man, it would seem rational never to think of Him at all.
'I realize they say we are 'wacko' and 'out there, but we are the most rational of all.
I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.
The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices.
I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
At a certain moment, Yugoslavia stopped being rational, and then you end up going to war.
Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
We appreciate every rational and every true comment, and we take criticism very seriously.
I think political parties can be funded in a perfectly rational way without being corrupt.
Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.
It is sometimes rational to do what is wrong, and sometimes irrational to do what is right
Economists discount any factors that would not influence the thinking of a rational person.
Kant was a rational theologian. He did not pretend to be a biblical or revealed theologian.
The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.
At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.
How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth.
The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.
Who should know better than a cosmetician that human beings are less than rational creatures?
Darwinism removed the whole idea of God as the creator from the sphere of rational discussion.
You can't behave in a calm, rational manner. You've got to be out there on the lunatic fringe.
Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.
A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.
The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives.
I think it's rational to assume the best in other people because most people are pretty decent.
I'm quite a rational person. I'm not very superstitious, but I really do enjoy horror as a genre.
With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
I contend that most emotional distress is best understood as a rational response to sick societies.
When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to.
Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you.
I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel.
I have no phobias. Phobias are irrational. My fears are rational and CAREFULLY CULTIVATED, like roses.
It's time for the sensible center to rise up and push for a rational approach to our fiscal challenges.
I learned that most people buy based on emotion, not on a rational breakdown of the product or service.
Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.
No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.
He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are willing to listen only to rational arguments.
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
-But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.
As a physicist, I've always found cosmology to be a rational elixir; it distances me from ordinary concerns.
If you really look hard at the evidence, the most rational conclusion is to believe that the demonic is real.