Rational Beings

Famous quotes containing the words rational and/or beings:

“Plato—who may have understood better what forms the mind of man than do some of our contemporaries who want their children exposed only to “real” people and everyday events—knew what intellectual experience made for true humanity. He suggested that the future citizens of his ideal republic begin their literary education with the telling of myths, rather than with mere facts or so-called rational teachings.”
—Bruno Bettelheim (20th century)

“I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)