Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?
People do not consciously and rationally choose the form of their society. Societies develop through processes of social evolution that are not under rational human control.
Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life
Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather a calm, rational, even conversational voice.
Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile.
Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.
Effective altruism is the form of altruism in which we bring our rational capacities to bear in order to do the most good that we can.
The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common good. ' It is true that capitalism does -- if that catch-phrase has any meaning -- but this is merely a secondary consequence. The moral justification for capitalism lies in the fact that it is the only system consonant with man's rational nature, that it protects man's survival qua man, and that its ruling principle is: justice
A rational process is a moral process.
When one analyzes the pre-conscious step to concepts, one always finds ideas which consist of 'symbolic images. ' The first step to thinking is a painted vision of these inner pictures whose origin cannot be reduced only and firstly to the sensual perception but which are produced by an 'instinct to imagining' and which are re-produced by different individuals independently, i. e. collectively. . . But the archaic image is also the necessary predisposition and the source of a scientific attitude. To a total recognition belong also those images out of which have grown the rational concepts.
Gardening is not a rational act.
When people are temperate in their behavior, in their lives, someone who is addictive or extreme or obsessive can't understand how people can just go through their lives in the middle, and people who are rational and balanced can't understand the opposite. I'm one who's in the extreme camp in almost every area of my life and I always have been. I've observed that I'm in a minority, but I never understand people who are measured.
How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
Humor could not flourish in a wholly serious and rational atmosphere.
Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all.
To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.
What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. On this conviction the plain man like the philosopher takes his stand,and from it philosophy starts in its study of the universe of mind as well as the universe of nature.
Most of all I admire Mozart's capacity to be both deep and rational, a combination often said to be impossible.
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.