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Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. R. D. Laing

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Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order. Therefore, let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Work Education Creative Discipline Judgment Our Guide Responsible Must Clarity Rational Through Lead Students Road True Over Opinion Materials Intellectual Irresponsible Order Us Therefore Creative Work Function Let Us Chance

The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth. Anthony Kennedy

Truth Lie Simple Free Free Society Society Response Rational Simple Truth Remedy True Course False Ordinary Uninformed Enlightened Speech

To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like. Stephen Hawking

Work Alone Challenge Alien Thinking Out About Rational Perfectly Like Make Real Mathematical Brain Might Work Out Actually Numbers

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind. Frederick Douglass

Will Men Wind Reap Rational Expect Sow Whirlwind

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude. Karl Popper

Attitude Man Will Argument Adopt Rational Does Effect Want Who

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers. Mary Wollstonecraft

Good Women Will Men Free Become Fathers Neglect Citizens Husbands Rational Make Wives Quickly Duties Creatures

As a spiritual person, nature for me has always been a healing place. Going back all the way to my childhood on the farm, the fields and forests were places of adventure and self-discovery. Animals were companions and friends, and the world moved at a slower, more rational pace than the bustling cities where I'd resided my adult life. David Mixner

Life Nature Spiritual Me Healing World Animals Farm Back Way Cities Slower Spiritual Person More Rational Adult Adult Life Adventure Self-Discovery Always Were Been Friends Forests Than Person Going Childhood Moved Where Pace Place Places Fields Companions

The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what transforms bureaucrats and foot soldiers and political leaders into viable instruments of rational and affirmative change. The why is everything and without it, the very suggestion of human progress becomes a cosmic joke. David Simon

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Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity. Jonathan Safran Foer

Food Culture Rational Habit Identity Craving

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser. Karl Marx

Gone Mad Rational Miser Merely While Capitalist

In truth, there is no rational argument for guns in this society. This is no longer a frontier nation in which people hunt their own food. It is a crowded, overwhelmingly urban country in which letting people have access to guns is a continuing disaster. Molly Ivins

In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence, I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist. H. P. Lovecraft

Atheist Evidence Must Rational Practically Am Theory Agnostic Appearance

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight. Marilyn French

We don't classify all doctors as incompetent because of the infrequent instances of medical malpractice. We don't use the example of one bad teacher in our children's school to draw a negative conclusion of the entire teaching profession. We should apply that same rational standard when it comes to how we view law enforcement. Thom Tillis

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The happy medium - truth in all things - is no longer either known or valued; to gain applause, one must write things so inane that they might be played on barrel-organs, or so unintelligible that no rational being can comprehend them, though on that very account, they are likely to please. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods. Barry Commoner

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We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them. Carl Jung

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