Rational Quotes

“Life is fundamentally a mental state. We live in a dream world that we create. Whose life is truer, the rational man of action pursuing practical goals of personal happiness and wealth or the philosophic man who lives in a world of theoretical and metaphysical ideas? We ascribe the value quotient to our lives by making decisions that we score as either valid or invalid based upon our personal ethics and how we think and behave.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“It really is an instinct, the knack of dealing with irrational people, Natalie was thinking; I suppose any mind like mine, which is so close, actually, to the irrational and so tempted by it, is able easily to pass the dividing line between rational and irrational and communicate with someone drunk, or insane, or asleep.”
― Shirley Jackson, Hangsaman

“In the center of an irrational universe governed by an irrational Mind stands rational man.”
― Philip K. Dick, Valis

“But even when a man has offended against his own rational code, I doubt whether a sense of sin is the best method of arriving at a better way of life. There is in the sense of sin something abject, something lacking in self-respect. No good was ever done to any one by the loss of self-respect. The rational man will regard his own undesirable acts, as he regards those of others, as acts produced by certain circumstances, and to be avoided either by a fuller realization that they are undesirable, or, where this is possible, by avoidance of the circumstances that caused them.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“Every single human being is neurologically predisposed to be biased in various walks of life. It is biologically impossible to be absolutely free from all biases, nevertheless, the more a person rigorously trains the self to be rational and conscientious, the more that self becomes strong enough to keep the biases in check, never to let them run rampant over the psyche.”
― Abhijit Naskar, We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism

“A narrow hallway is all that separates rational from irrational, creativity from insanity, and intelligence from stupidity.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“The paralyzing fear of being lost is fed solely by the irrational fear that we will never be found.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“One way or another we are all biased, but still we have the modern cortical capacity to choose whether or not to let the harmful biases dictate our behavior.”
― Abhijit Naskar, We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism

“Truth is on the side of compassion.”
― Christina Hoff Sommers

“Dare to exercise rational thinking.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Your daily choices and actions should be rational and productive”
― Sunday Adelaja

“It takes courage to speak or react way slower than you think.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Maybe it wasn’t rational, but she didn’t like the idea of Leo invading her little world. Yesterday, Brooklyn had belonged to her. The Long Island ’burbs where she’d grown up had felt far away from the brick streets and renovated factory spaces of Brooklyn. In this job, she’d felt truly independent, putting down her own fragile roots in a new place.

Fast forward twenty-four hours, and her daddy had joined the workplace and her ex-boyfriend had shown up to remind her of all that she’d lost. Really, a girl could be forgiven for feeling slightly hysterical.

Not that there was any time to panic.”
― Sarina Bowen, Rookie Move

“It is better to be foolish than a dilettante.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Principia Humanitas

“Baptize yourself with the flow of rational thinking and the world is bound to become rational.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism

“Reasonable humans are the only minority in this world..”
― Danilo Vukovljak

“Never trust books on the question of whether or not to trust your rational thinking. Trust your rational thinking on the question of whether or not to trust the books.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“When you don’t have explanation for a certain phenomenon, as a real human, you should suspend judgement, instead of concocting supernatural explanations out of ignorance and primordial fanaticism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Principia Humanitas

“Until now, human organization could only be based upon something negative which could not be conquered: SCARCITY, and something false: PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY... No wonder instead of producing stability, it produced the exact opposite.
The current human organization based upon dealing with the consequences of scarcity and being considered responsible for our individual characteristics which we could never have chosen (our nature, our nurture, our “soul”, and all the choices they engender), will always lead to an irrational, hence unstable human organization causing perpetual conflicts, which is no organization at all.

Today, we have the luxury to initiate a rational self-organization based upon two positives:
-our HUMAN CONSENSUS; our common desires shared by all, and
-the SCIENTIFIC PROJECT to achieve them.”
― Haroutioun Bochnakian, The Human Consensus and The Ultimate Project Of Humanity

“The human brain always concocts biases to aid in the construction of a coherent mental life, exclusively suitable for an individual’s personal needs.”
― Abhijit Naskar, We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism

“Beliefs are personal, but universal truths are above that. For example, the surface temperature of the sun is around 5,505 degrees Celsius – the speed of light is around 300,000 kilometers per second – the Earth is about 4.5 billion years old – modern day chimps are the closest cousins of us humans. These are irrefutable universal truth, regardless of what anyone believes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lord is My Sheep: Gospel of Human

“The way most people use their minds is analogous to an ambulance that is used only as an umbrella.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I've seen what rational thought leads to. Dumbest people I ever met were intellectuals.”
― Robert Ferrigno, Heart of the Assassin

“As utterly irrational as it might seem, the greed within me has the most limited vision I can possibly imagine as it has eyes only for the few things it doesn’t have, and it is completely blind to all the many remarkable things that it does.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Psychics, astrology, tarot cards - all these mystical non-sense are signs of a weak mind. Whenever such garbage starts grabbing hold of you, seek the help of a physician or therapist.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“The majority of India's adult and elderly population is too medieval to think as civilized, rational and progressive human beings.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“She was surprised because she was Emily, and she did not share Jonathan's frank assessment of coworkers as losers, whiners, bozos, sharks. No, she imagined people were rational and courteous, as she was, and when they proved otherwise, she assumed that she could influence them to become that way. Dangerous thinking. When she was truthful, she expected to hear the truth. Reasonable, she expected reasonable behavior in return. She was young, inventive, fantastically successful. She trusted in the world, believing in poetic justice- that good ideas blossomed and bore fruit, while dangerous schemes were meant to wither on the vine. She had passions and petty jealousies like everybody else, but she was possessed of a serene rationality. At three, she had listened while her mother sang "Greensleeves" in the dark, and she'd asked: "Why are you singing 'Greensleeves' when my nightgown is blue?" Then Gillian had changed the song to "Bluesleeves," and Emily had drifted off. Those songs were over now, Gillian long gone. Despite this loss- because of it- Emily was still that girl, seeking consonance and symmetry, logic, light.”
― Allegra Goodman, The Cookbook Collector

“Connection isn't elegant, or precise, or rational. But it's our fate to be bound up with one another, isn't it. We are all born insufficient, and must look to others to supplement our strength. That is no weakness, it is the first condition of human life.”
― Madeleine George, The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence

“Logic would say, ‘pay it no mind’. Yet the heart would say, ‘to pay it no mind would be to pay too much’.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The use of reason and that of an erect penis are mutually exclusive.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana