It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A litlte rationality lifts the quality of the debate here. Thanks for contributing! — Emmy Copy Share Image
No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Rationality doesnt exist; right is absence of wrongness and wrong is what seems to be unfair. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What the efficient market hypothesis doesn't account for is that people are not always rational. Just ask any divorce lawyer.” — Coreen T. Sol Copy Share Image
“The rational mind finds yielding to fear an irresistible temptation; but by indulging in this temptation, the mind slays itself.” — Théun Mares Copy Share Image
The inversion of external compulsion into the compulsion of conscience ... produces the machine-like assiduity and pliable allegiance required by the new rationality. — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Indeed, the highest pleasure of golf may be that on the fairways and far from all the pressures of commerce and rationality,… — Colman McCarthy Copy Share Image
Myth is necessary because reality is so much larger than rationality...man is fundamentally mythic...His real health depends upon his knowing and living… — Clyde S. Kilby Copy Share Image
“Rash decisions will more often than not, result in the demise of the chances you could have had with a situation; now… — Abhilash 'Nox' Baruah Copy Share Image
The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Researchers may like to think that, given all the facts, we make rational choices. Ask economists how that assumption works out for… — Kyle Hill Copy Share Image
The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“What a deep [trust] in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. That's something I value. Fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerance. That's different.… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. Instead, a balance - a… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die...… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
You are therefore able to run on this path, on which God is found above all vision, hearing, taste, touch, smell, speech,… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
When in the evening we are alone with our most existential thoughts, it is then that we come face to face with… — Michael Kirby Copy Share Image
Institutionalized desublimation thus appears to be an aspect of the "conquest of transcendence" achieved by the one-dimensional society. Just as this society… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“The notion of literature as only one of several avenues to a single type of propositional knowledge is, of course, hardly the… — Peter Swirski Copy Share Image
We live at a time that is notable for the polemical nature of discussions about identity, consciousness, rationality, agency, memory, and feeling.… — Robert P. George Copy Share Image
“What can we say for and about this behavioral version, this bounded rationality version, of human thinking and problem solving? The first… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
“When a human being develops an argument, when a human being attempts not only to think but to speak with precision, he… — Helen DeWitt Copy Share Image
I think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world.… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The age of warrior kings and of warrior presidents has passed. The nuclear age calls for a different kind of leadership… a… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
“As Richard Nisbett and Lee Ross (1980) point out, rationally defensible deductive logic involves a specification from the universal to the particular… — Reid Hastie Copy Share Image
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