Neither science nor the politics in power nor the mass media nor business nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods but a new metaphysics can rescue us.
The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.
You're an actor are you? Well all that means is: you are irresponsible irrational romantic and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal material sensational - and probably sexual!
Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable for it is the sign of a rational being.
Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
Indeed in view of its function religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
Afghanistan is going to be here a long time and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are to the maximum extent they can be constructive and operationally useful.
Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings to the unknown and returns us to our rational structured selves refreshed.