Definition of Rational

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Rational

Relating to the reason; not physical; mental.

Having reason, or the faculty of reasoning; endowed with reason or understanding; reasoning.

Agreeable to reason; not absurd, preposterous, extravagant, foolish, fanciful, or the like; wise; judicious; as, rational conduct; a rational man.

Expressing the type, structure, relations, and reactions of a compound; graphic; -- said of formulae. See under Formula.

A rational being.

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Rational Quotations

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.
Thomas Jefferson

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
Ayn Rand

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
Eleanor Roosevelt

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
Karl Marx

If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
Saint Augustine

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
Frederick Douglass

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
Noam Chomsky

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
Richard Dawkins

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.
Albert Ellis

Rational Translations

rational in Dutch is redelijk, rationeel
rational in French is rationnel
rational in Italian is razionale
rational in Portuguese is racional
rational in Spanish is racional

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