#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

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#behave #beings #creatures #human #human beings

He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#becomes #danger #emotionally #epic #epic poetry

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#harmful #held #irrationally #may #more

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#between #cannot #country #fighting #gratify

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

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

There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#believe #courage #dangers #darkest #enforce