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“Justice is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake the character of men as you cannot fake the character of nature, that you must judge all men as conscientiously as you judge inanimate objects, with the same respect for truth, with the same incorruptible vision, by as pure and as rational a process of identification-that every man must be judged for what he is and treated accordingly.”

Men Character Facts Process Justice Vision Objects Judging Pure Every Man Treated Rational Recognition Fake Judged Identification Inanimate Objects Character Of A Man

Author:John Galt

“Perspective is nothing more than a rational demonstration applied to the consideration of how objects in front of the eye transmit their image to it, by means of a pyramid of lines. The Pyramid is the name I apply to the lines which, starting from the surface and edges of each object, converge from a distance and meet in a single point.”

Mean Eye Names Lines Fronts Objects Perspective Distance Starting Edges Surface Rational Consideration Demonstration Pyramids Transmit

Book:The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete

Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete

“... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose, can have a government at all.”

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Book:Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789

Source: Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789

“The nude gains its enduring value from the fact that it reconciles several contrary states. It takes the most sensual and immediately interesting object, the human body, and puts it out of reach of time and desire; it takes the most purely rational concept of which mankind is capable, mathematical order, and makes it a delight to the senses; and it takes the vague fears of the unknown and sweetens them by showing that the gods are like men and may be worshiped for their life-giving beauty rather than their death-dealing powers.”

“What reason is there for believing that a high death rate, in itself, is undesirable? To my knowledge none whatever. The plain fact is that, if it be suitably selective, it is extremely salubrious. Suppose it could be so arranged that it ran to 100% a year among politicians, executive secretaries, drive chairmen, and the homicidally insane? What rational man would object?”

Ifs Men Years Believe Reason Facts Objects Politician Rate Rational Insane Ran Executives Secretary Chairman Selective Undesirable

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“Being in church so often, spending those hours sitting in front of a highly symbolic array of objects, hearing those beautiful texts - it teaches a kid that there are important truths beyond the literal ones, and that we have ways to access those truths that are, let's say, super-rational.”

Way Important Kids Beautiful Hours Church Teach Fronts Objects Truth Is Sitting Hearing Spending Access Rational Symbolic Literal

Author:George Saunders

“In the Republic Plato presents a theory of personality. ... He speaks of three faculties, the appetitive, the ambitious, and the rational. ... The most dangerous faculty according to Plato is the appetitive for it bonds the soul to the senses and the realm of sense objects.”

Soul Three Speak Dangerous Objects Theory Personality Senses Rational Realms Faculty Republic Ambitious Plato

Author:Thomas McEvilley

“It is both theoretically mistaken and morally wrong to regard others as objects of investigation rather than partners in free rational communication.”

Objects Communication Regard Partners Rational Investigation Mistaken

Author:Allen W. Wood