#rationally

People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#afraid #could #decide #effort #kinds

I am not particularly religious. But I think we do face the question of where God is, why we are created and where does life go, why we exist. That sort of thing. And it is very hard to talk about it these days, because it cannot be proven. It is hard to discuss it rationally. ↗

— Ang Lee

#am #because #cannot #created #days

I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health. ↗

— John Forbes Nash, Jr.

#characteristic #disability #entirely #good #health

Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them. ↗

— Allen Tate

#conflicts #deals #does #fundamental #logically

I'm afraid of heights. Not unreasonably, but rationally afraid of heights. I think everyone is. ↗

— Joe Rogan

#everyone #heights #i #i think #rationally

The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#inspirational

The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease. ↗

— James D. Watson

#after #also #appropriate #bipolar #disease

Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely loyal. He hated passionately and irrationally. ↗

— George Woodcock

#full #got #grievances #hated #irrationally

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#him #looks #mutual #presents #rational

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#harmful #held #irrationally #may #more