{"quotes":[{"text":"The Bible is clear: Truth exists. It can be known. And when we ground our beliefs in it, we are rational.","author":"Patty Houser","tags":["absolutism","belief","beliefs","bible","epistemology","rational","rationality"],"id":1126,"author_id":"Patty+Houser"},{"text":"I treat my thoughts like an old person treats their valuables: I cannot for the life of me proceed to throwing them out.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["artist","belief","brain","cognition","confession","consideration","creativity","creed","death","discard","funny","funny-but-true","habits","honesty","humor","instinct","intellectual","intuition","irrational","knowledge","life","logic","mind","negativity","old-habits","old-person","opinion","original-thought","positivity","precious","psychology","rational","rationalization","sentimental","stubborn","think","thinker","thinking","thought","thoughts","tradition","treasure","valuable","wisdom"],"id":6887,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.","author":"Thomas Jefferson","tags":["dogmatism","rational","reason","religion"],"id":7363,"author_id":"Thomas+Jefferson"},{"text":"If I have to die either for religion or atheism I would prefer atheism, since my conscience will respect my rational decision.","author":"M.F. Moonzajer","tags":["atheism","conscience","rational"],"id":11468,"author_id":"M.F.+Moonzajer"},{"text":"Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.","author":"Robert Owen","tags":["law","rational","folly "],"id":18627,"author_id":"Robert+Owen"},{"text":"A non-religious person when awaken would make others sleep. Therefore his sleeping is good. A religious person when awaken will awaken others. Therefore his awakening is good.","author":"Lord Mahavira","tags":["answer","awakening","bad","broad-mindedness","equanimity","equilibrium","goal","good","jainism","life","lord","love","mahavira","non-absolutism","rational","relativity","religion","religious","seeking-truth","sleeping","truth","ultimate","ultimate-answer","wisdom","words-of-wisdom","world","yin-yang"],"id":27451,"author_id":"Lord+Mahavira"},{"text":"Dare to exercise rational thinking.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","inspirational","inspirational","inspiring","rational","rational-thinker","rational-thinking","rational-thought","wise","wise-words","words-of-wisdom"],"id":31174,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Until now, human organization could only be based upon something negative which could not be conquered: SCARCITY, and something false: PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY... No wonder instead of producing stability, it produced the exact opposite.The current human organization based upon dealing with the consequences of scarcity and being considered responsible for our individual characteristics which we could never have chosen (our nature, our nurture, our “soul”, and all the choices they engender), will always lead to an irrational, hence unstable human organization causing perpetual conflicts, which is no organization at all.Today, we have the luxury to initiate a rational self-organization based upon two positives: -our HUMAN CONSENSUS; our common desires shared by all, and -the SCIENTIFIC PROJECT to achieve them.","author":"Haroutioun Bochnakian","tags":["accountability","consensus","determinism","false","free-will","human-organization","humanism","irrational","organization","personal-accountability","rational","scarcity","science","unreasonable"],"id":39152,"author_id":"Haroutioun+Bochnakian"},{"text":"Never trust books on the question of whether or not to trust your rational thinking. Trust your rational thinking on the question of whether or not to trust the books.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["free-thinkers","free-thinking","free-thinking-abilities","free-thinking","life-philosophy","philosophy","philosophy-of-life","rational","rational-spirituality","rational-thought","rationality","religion","religious-beliefs","religious-extremism","religious-violence","scripture","wisdom","wisdom","wise"],"id":39734,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Behind every flinch is a fear or an anxiety - sometimes rational, sometimes not. Without the fear, there is no flinch. But wiping out the fear isn't what's important - facing it is.","author":"Julien Smith","tags":["afraid","anxiety","courage","courageous","facing-fear","fear","flinch","irrational","rational"],"id":42435,"author_id":"Julien+Smith"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":126,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}