Rational Quotes

The ancients considered mechanics in a twofold respect: as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonstration, and practical. To practical mechanics all the manual arts belong, from which mechanics took its name.

Go out this morning. Love yourself, and that means rational and healthy self-interest. You are commanded to do that. That's the length of life. Then follow that: Love your neighbor as you love yourself. You are commanded to do that. That's the breadth of life.

Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.

Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant.

All social life is essentially practical. All mysterious which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of the practice.

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.

Without passion, any rational person would give up!

You have to have a lot of passion for what you do... because if you don't, any rational person would give up.