Rational
Relating to the reason; not physical; mental.
Having reason, or the faculty of reasoning; endowed with reason or understanding; reasoning.
Agreeable to reason; not absurd, preposterous, extravagant, foolish, fanciful, or the like; wise; judicious; as, rational conduct; a rational man.
Expressing the type, structure, relations, and reactions of a compound; graphic; -- said of formulae. See under Formula.
A rational being.
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Rational Quotations
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde
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
A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
Ayn Rand
While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
Karl Marx
If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
Saint Augustine
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
Frederick Douglass
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
Lee Iacocca
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
Richard Dawkins
Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
W. Edwards Deming
Rational Translations
rational in Dutch is redelijk, rationeel
rational in French is rationnel
rational in Italian is razionale
rational in Portuguese is racional
rational in Spanish is racional
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