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The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

— Charles Dickens, English Writer

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

— Annie Besant, British Theosophist

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. – In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.

— Steve Allen, Actor

What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?

— Emmanuel Levinas, French philosopher

If you find yourself in a fair fight, you should reexamine your tactics.

— John Steinbeck, American Author

If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

— Lars Von Trier,  Danish film director

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

— Robert G. Ingersoll, American Lawyer

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

— Jane Austen, English Novelist

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.

— Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

The solutions all are simple…after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are.

— Robert Pirsig, American Writer
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