"We have no argument against the planets being inhabited by rational beings, and consequently by witnesses of the creator's power, magnificence and benevolence, unless it be said that some are much nearer the sun than the earth is, and therefore must be uninhabitable from heat, and those more distant from cold. Whatever objection this may be against their being inhabited by rational beings, of an organisation similar to those on the earth, it can have little force, when urged with respect to rational beings in general.英文原著 · 《Thoughts on Man》
NARREN-POSSEN (Nonsense)!" answers Friedrich Wilhelm,--and opening the window, beckons Seckendorf up, with his own royal head and hand. The conversation of a man who had rational sense, and could tell him anything, were it only news af foreign parts in a rational manner, was always welcome to Friedrich Wilhelm.英文原著 · 《History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 5》
``Please ring off and call your kitchen and tell them to put your breakfast on the dining-room table for you in three-quarters of an hour. Then get up, take your bath and your exercises--dress yourself for the day--and go down and eat your breakfast. How can you hope to amount to anything unless you live by a rational system? And how can you have a rational system unless you begin the day right?''英文原著 · 《The Conflict》
"Just put that book on my table. That is said not without reflection--everything on earth is rational! See someone thought of it. It is even very cleverly expressed. And were it not for the fools, it might have been perfectly correct. But as fools are always in the wrong place, it cannot be said that everything on earth is rational. And yet, I'll look at the book. Maybe there is common sense in it.英文原著 · 《The Man Who Was Afraid》
Wherein the end of everything doth consist, therein also doth his good and benefit consist. Society therefore is the proper good of a rational creature. For that we are made for society, it hath long since been demonstrated. Or can any man make any question of this, that whatsoever is naturally worse and inferior, is ordinarily subordinated to that which is better? and that those things that are best, are made one for another? And those things that have souls, are better than those that have none? and of those that have, those best that have rational souls?英文原著 · 《The Meditations》
There's still that gap between rational thought and rational action, between software and hardware.美剧 · 《Billions》
One, she'll come up with a rationalization to justify not telling her husband about this surgery, and two, you'll come up with a rationalization美剧 · 《The Good Doctor》
It inspired the very first patient I saw, and if I wasn't being rational about that, maybe I wasn't rational about this case.美剧 · 《The Good Doctor》
All right, you're making a rational expectations argument, but you're not being rational.美剧 · 《The News Room》
So their way of rationalizing that is they are saving the fish from drowning, So their way of rationalizing that is they are saving the fish from drowning,演讲 · 《Where does creativity hide ~ Amy Tan》