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“Sometimes love burns so hot in your veins that it consumes all rational thought. You become a walking shell that can no longer function without your significant other whispering into your soul, telling your heart to beat.”

Heart Soul Sometimes Walking Beats Function Hot Significant Rational Your Soul Shells Veins Whispering Time Love Rational Thought Significant Other Sometimes Love

Author:Teresa Mummert

“It is not music's function to express rational necessities.”

Function Rational

Book:Music and the line of most resistance

Source: Music and the line of most resistance

“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.”

Needs Literature Views Principles Greater Ultimate Function Foundation Rational Dogma

Book:Iqbal centenary papers

Source: Iqbal centenary papers

“The attack on Social Security is similarly motivated. Social Security is based on the conception is that we should have sympathy for others, not function merely as isolated "rational wealth maximizers."”

Should Social Wealth Security Should Have Function Rational Conception Motivated Isolated Social Security

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Eiffel saw his Tower in the form of a serious object, rational, useful; men return it to him in the form of a great baroque dream which quite naturally touches on the borders of the irrational ... architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.”

Men Dream Form Saws Objects Serious Expression Return Function Instruments Architecture Rational Borders Towers Irrational Convenience Utopia Baroque Eiffel

Book:The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies

Source: The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies

“Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and feeling. If the two functions are torn apart, thinking deteriorates into schizoid intellectual activity and feeling deteriorates into neurotic life-damaging passions.”

Ifs Thinking Two Reason Feelings Passion Activity Intellectual Flow Function Rational Torn Neurotic Thoughts And Feelings Rational Thought Torn Apart Schizoid

Book:The Revolution of Hope

Source: The Revolution of Hope

“A first grader should understand that her or his culture isn't a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and they all work pretty well; that all cultures function on faith rather than truth; that there are lots of alternatives to our own society...Cultural relativity is defensible, attractive. It's a source of hope. It means we don't have to continue this way if we don't like it.”

Ifs Way Should Firsts Wells Mean Faith Culture Community Source Function Invention Rational Alternatives Attractive Relativity Other Cultures Society And Culture

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that which we assign for the variations in other functions, viz. difference of organization; and that the superiority of man in rational endowments is not greater than the more exquisite, complicated, and perfectly developed structure of his brain, and particularly of his ample cerebral hemispheres, to which the rest of the animal kingdom offers no parallel, nor even any near approximation, is sufficient to account for.”