How is it possible for someone who believes that the world was created in six days to have a rational conversation with me, who doesn't believe that, about other possibilities? Paul Auster
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. Cicero
I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas it seems to me to be entirely rational to fear death! Julian Barnes
I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me. Margaret Atwood
I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, 'This is my idea and here's all the reasons that it's right.' It doesn't make for very compelling reading. Donald Miller
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.orson welles
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
What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists - whatever else they might be - might also be rational human beings; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions. William Blum
While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.Karl Heinrich Marx