Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.
Joseph Wood Krutch

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

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.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

From 1918 on, trade unionists were to express from the platforms of their congresses the workers' desire for peace through a rational organization of the world.
Leon Jouhaux

Gardening is not a rational act.
Margaret Atwood

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
William Wycherley

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
Mary Wollstonecraft

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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.
Thomas Jefferson

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
Noam Chomsky

I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
Larry Niven

'I realize they say we are 'wacko' and 'out there, but we are the most rational of all.
Brigitte Boisselier

I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist.
Albert Ellis

I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.
Robert Anton Wilson

I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual.
Rem Koolhaas

I think the Democratic Party has picked a lot of the wrong candidates, the kind that Middle America, or people who are more down the middle and more rational, can't side with. I think that's been the problem.
Glenn Danzig

I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.
Edward Bond

I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.
Jim Harrison

If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
Saint Augustine

If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?
Gloria Steinem