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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) British statesman and man of letters
19 December 1749
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
Context: We must not suppose that, because a man is a rational animal, he will, therefore, always act rationally; or, because he has such or such a predominant passion, that he will act invariably and consequentially in pursuit of it. No, we are complicated machines; and though we have one main spring that gives motion to the whole, we have an infinity of little wheels, which, in their turns, retard, precipitate, and sometime stop that motion.
“Even godlike aliens have to act rationally—don’t they?”
Alastair Reynolds book Pushing Ice
“I wouldn’t know,” she said. “I can’t recall ever meeting any.”
Chapter 18 (p. 301)
Pushing Ice (2005)
“Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.”
Salman Rushdie (1947) British Indian novelist and essayist
“To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
VII, 11
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
Henry Morton Stanley (1841–1904) Welsh journalist and explorer
Quotes:, Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1909)
Ludwig von Mises book Socialism
Part II : The Economics of a Socialist Community, § I : The Economics of an Isolated Socialist Community, Ch. 5 : The Nature of Economic Activity, p. 97 http://www.econlib.org/library/Mises/msS3.html#Part%20II,Ch.5 <br class="br">Socialism (1922) <br class="br">Source: Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis
Ron Finley American fashion designer and urban gardener
Ron Finley at TED2013 (2013)
