Rationalitetens Quotes & Sayings

But that was in the days when they expected perils to come from without, and nothing made less sense by that time than a survival room buried in a house itself becoming one big coffin. — Jeffrey Eugenides

All fighters run. The constant motion prepares you for being in the ring. And running strengthens your legs. Punching power comes from your lower body. — Laila Ali

All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something. — Michael Kimmelman

The course of mankind's progress is not a straight, automatic line, but a tortuous struggle, with long detours or relapses into the stagnant night of the irrational. Mankind moves forward by the grace of those human bridges who are able to grasp and transmit, across years or centuries, the achievements men had reached
and to carry them further. Thomas Aquinas is one illustrious example: he was the bridge between Aristotle and the Renaissance, spanning the infamous detour of the Dark and Middle Ages. — Ayn Rand

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice. — Leon Blum

There are souls which, in their limitation, blame the whole world. But subdue such a soul with mercy, show it love, and it will cure its past, for there are many good impulses in it. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The corner doesn't mind listening to the stupid things I say;
Sometimes it's the only one keeping me from running away.
And the corner never tells me things I'd rather never know;
We became the best of friends long, long, long ago. — Margo T. Rose