Famous quotes containing the words rational, normal and/or form:
“I often wish for the end of the wretched remnant of my life; and that wish is a rational one; but then the innate principle of self-preservation, wisely implanted in our natures, for obvious purposes, opposes that wish, and makes us endeavour to spin out our thread as long as we can, however decayed and rotten it may be.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“You will be again as normal and selfish and heartless as anybody
else.”
—Louise Bogan (1897–1970)
“Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)