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  • Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live.

    Bipolar   Desire   Erode  
    Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.11, Pan Macmillan
  • Sometimes love burns so hot in your veins that it consumes all rational thought. You become a walking shell that can no longer function without your significant other whispering into your soul, telling your heart to beat.

    Heart   Soul   Hot  
    FaceBook post by Teresa Mummert from Dec 30, 2013
  • Only the heart knows the correct answer. Most people think the heart is mushy and sentimental. But it's not. The heart is intuitive; it's holistic, it's contextual, it's relational. It doesn't have a win-lose orientation. It taps into the cosmic computer - the field of pure potentiality, pure knowledge, and infinite organizing power - and takes everything into account. At times it may not even seem rational, but the heart has a computing ability that is far more accurate and far more precise than anything within the limits of rational thought.

    Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.33, Amber-Allen Publishing
  • The intuitive mind is a sacred gift.

  • All changes, even positive ones, are scary. Attempts to reach goals through radical or revolutionary means often fail because they heighten fear. But the small steps of kaizen disarm the brain's fear response, stimulating rational thought and creative play.

    Change   Mean   Play  
  • Our garden was debated territory between five local cats, and we'd heard that the best way to keep other cats out of the garden was to have one yourself. A moment's rational thought here will spot the slight flaw in this reasoning.

    Cat   Garden   Territory  
    "The Unadulterated Cat". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.
  • Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and feeling. If the two functions are torn apart, thinking deteriorates into schizoid intellectual activity and feeling deteriorates into neurotic life-damaging passions.

    Passion   Thinking   Two  
    Erich Fromm (2011). “The Revolution of Hope”, p.51, Lantern Books
  • I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality.

  • Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.

    Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.283, Penguin
  • I have a reverence for medicine because I hero-worshiped my father [a former doctor], and because I admire doctors, I admire study, empiricism and rational thought. I don't study, empiricize or think rationally myself - but I admire it in others.

    Father   Hero   Thinking  
    FaceBook post by Hugh Laurie from Dec 11, 2011
  • The child is thinking and receiving vibrational thought from you on the day that he enters your environment. That is the reason that beliefs are transmitted so easily from parent to child.

    Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2006). “The Law of Attraction”, p.149, Hay House, Inc
  • The entire history of humanity is marked by a single inexorable movement - from animal instinct toward rational thought, from inborn behavior toward acquired knowledge. A half-grown panther abandoned in the wilderness will grow up to be a perfectly normal panther. But a half-grown child similarly abandoned will grow up into an unrecognizable savage, unfit for normal society. Yet there are those who insist the opposite: that we are creatures of instinct, like wolves.

  • More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute for rational thought.

    Hyman Rickover's address to US Naval Postgraduate School, March 16, 1954.
  • Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we are almost incapable of applying the elementary principles of rational thought.

    Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.156, Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

  • I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law.

    "Ken Livingstone tells Jewish Chronicle of his contrition over leaked remarks" by Hélène Mulholland, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2012.
  • No, no, no - you don't argue with concepts. You have to claim Dogma, and therefore leave no room for rational thought.

    Rooms   Arguing   Dogma  
  • So, let us, you and I, for the sake of our brother man, individually strive by example and influence to lift the standard of thought and conduct from the low level of selfishness and self-indulgence up to the lofty realms of aspirational thought and self-denial.

  • The genuine values in America arose from rational thought and breaking with tradition, not from blind allegiance to dirt and cloth.

    America   Dirt   Blind  
    Twitter post from Dec 16, 2016
  • -But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.

  • The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought.

    Barbara Catoir, Antoni Tàpies (1991). “Conversations with Antoni Tàpies: With an Introduction to the Artist's Work”
  • The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances.

    "Will underachieving and being directionless alienate me from people?" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2012.
  • Nobody ever arrives at a very big idea through a conscious, rational thought process. It comes from your unconscious.

  • You cannot expect any rational thought from a religious man. He is like a rocking log in water.

    Religious   Men   Water  
    Collected works of Periyar E.V.R., p. 50, 2005.
  • Like fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this place. Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different. Where did the expression "a place in the sun" first come from? My rational thought process cling always to the idea of free will, random event; my blood, however, streams easily along a current of fate.

    Fate   Expression   Blood  
  • Worry lives a long way from rational thought."---Self

    Self   Long   Worry  
  • Manic-depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live. It is an illness that is biological in its origins, yet one that feels psychological in the experience of it, an illness that is unique in conferring advantage and pleasure, yet one that brings in its wake almost unendurable suffering and, not infrequently, suicide.

    Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.11, Pan Macmillan
  • If you look into their [chimpanzees] eyes, you know you're looking into a thinking mind. They teach us that we are not the only beings with personalities, minds capable of rational thought, altruism and a sense of humor. That leads to new respect for other animals, respect for the environment and respect for all life.

    Eye   Science   Animal  
  • Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

    Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.425, Princeton University Press
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