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Letter "R" » rational
«Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason; if with reason, then they establish the principles that they are laboring to dethrone: but if they argue without reason (which, in order to be consistent with themselves they must do), they are out of reach of rational conviction, nor do they deserve a rational argument.»
Author: Ethan Allen
| Keywords:
argue, consistent, dethrone, dethroned, dethroning, establish, invalidate, invalidated, invalidating, laboring, out of reach, rational, with reason
«When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.»
«When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
| Keywords:
rational, reap, sow, The Whirlwind, whirlwinds
«The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love; all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to say, a reasonable man may reasonably rejoice in its existence»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Love,
Religion,
War
| Keywords:
activities, anti, extra, In Love and War, main, modern, rational, reasonable, Reasonable man, reasonably, rejoice, that is to say, The three
«With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
feature, ladies, please, rational, unaffected, works
«While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser»
«To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| About:
Wisdom
| Keywords:
apprehension, apprehensions, belongs, eternal, intellectual, rational, temporal
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