George Monbiot

I have tried to keep my eco-anxiety at bay, to box it into my working life. But every month this becomes more difficult. The rising sense of panic I feel is entirely rational; we should all be feeling it. But we can't live with it through every hour of every day.

British Writer

Frank Luntz

In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we're actually unhappy. Emotion is good; passion is good. Being into what we're into, provided that it's a healthy pursuit, it's a good thing.

American Politician

Yoshihiko Noda

China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.

Japanese Statesman

Erica Durance

What do you do when your world is falling apart? How do you hold onto the real and the rational? I think that's very relatable for people.

Canadian Actress

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

Roman Statesman

Bertrand Russell

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

British Philosopher

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

German Philosopher

Joe Rogan

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

American Comedian

Sophie Kennedy Clark

In real life, I'm very rational, and I'm not very dramatic.

Scottish Actress

Jimmy Wales

Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.

American Businessman

Use 'rational' to describe thoughts and decisions that are made logically, without letting emotions cloud judgment.

Objective Thinking

'Rational' emphasizes the clarity and sensibility of arguments, ideas, or methods.

Argument Clarity

'Rational' is often used to contrast with emotional, impulsive, or instinctive reactions.

Not Emotional

In math, a 'rational' number is precise and can be exactly defined as a fraction, unlike irrational numbers.

Mathematical Precision

'Rational' includes all fractions and decimals that can be written as fractions, not just whole numbers.

Non-Whole Numbers

When 'rational' is used as a noun, it refers to an explanation that is logical and well-founded.

Sound Justification

Mind the common error of using 'rational' when 'rationale' (with an 'e') is the correct form for an explanation.

Misuse Correction

 to help them with a decision. And so I want to talk about that. And I'm going to talk about a very particular medical condition. But this stands as a proxy for all kinds of medical decision-making, and indeed for financial decision-making, and social decision-making -- any kind of decision you have to make that would benefit from a rational assessment of the facts.

How to stay calm when...

 And I always have been. And I'm afraid of many, many more things besides that people can't even guess at, like seaweed and other things that are scary. But, when it comes to writing, the thing that I've been sort of thinking about lately, and wondering about lately, is why? You know, is it rational?

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 something that gets that price signal out there. We need to get the message out. We need to have this dialogue be a more rational, more understandable dialogue, including the steps that the government takes. This is an important wish, but it is one I think we can achieve.

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 one of them might engage you more than anything else, and then you may have found your greatest love, in comparison to all the other things that interest you, and that's what passion is. I have a friend, proposed to his sweetie. He was an economically rational person.

Larry Smith: Why you...

 With just these ten symbols, we can write any rational number imaginable. But why these particular symbols? Why ten of them? And why do we arrange them the way we do? Numbers have been a fact of life throughout recorded history.

A brief history of...

 exercise i was getting along the way and this really helped me to keep the game kind of rational instead of emotional the way it can get this was a big war i had to break this down to the smallest battle i could win every

The psychological weight...

 This has resonated strongly with modern psychology and the self-help movement. For example, rational emotive behavioral therapy focuses on changing the self-defeating attitudes people form about their life circumstances.

The philosophy of...

 These numbers, which we call irrational numbers, were perceived as a threat to the Pythagorean's notion of a perfect universe. They imagined a reality that could be described with rational, numerical patterns.

 that explored the value of life amidst absurdity many of which circled back to the same philosophical if life is truly meaningless, is committing suicide the only rational response?

Is life meaningless? And...

 to air we need to start solving these problems we need to manage our resources more rationally and collectively because otherwise it'll be Daisy row for these central resources