First, study the present construction. Second, ask for all past experiences ...study and read everything you can on the subject. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The functional language is a radically anti-historical language: operational rationality has little room and little use for historical reason. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Rationality is not a prerequisite to liberty. There is a sapient right to be free, whatever conditions we find ourselves in. We… — L Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing. — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
There's a beauty to forgiveness, especially forgiveness that goes beyond rationality. Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great &… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Dialectic, which is the parent of logic, came itself from rhetoric. Rhetoric is in turn the child of the myths and poetry… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him if he were discouraged because… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I would warn against too much of a radical devotion to rationality. Rationality is an illusion, an invented concept, a construct from… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“The Use of the Understanding, in endeavouring to find out the Meaning of any Proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature and Evidence… — Anthony Collins Copy Share Image
In the Soul is the awaking of Consciousness: Consciousness sets itself up as Reason, awaking at one bound to the sense of… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“If a ship landed in my yard and LGMs stepped out, I’d push past their literature and try to find the cable… — Peter K. Bertine Copy Share Image
“P.C. Hodgell said - That which can be destroyed by the truth should be . Do not flinch from experiences that might… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Sam Harris fearlessly describes a moral and intellectual emergency precipitated by religious fantasies--misguided beliefs that create suffering, that rationalize violence, that have… — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
“I really have nothing against rationality, or even doing what you think is best, or doing what is more likely to satisfy… — John R. Perry Copy Share Image
“Lightness. Let the winds of evidence blow you about as though you are a leaf, with no direction of your own. Beware… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“It’s all well and good to have a mountain of psychological research detailing the different ways in which we routinely fail to… — Joseph Heath Copy Share Image
“The Way of Bayes is also an imprecise art, at least the way I'm holding forth upon it. These blog posts are… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Skepticism's bad rap arises from the impression that, however necessary the activity, it can only be regarded as a negative removal of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
It is for this reason that rationality is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species...even more, in those less… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
And that, I suppose, is what I'd been trying to tell my mother that day: that her faith in justice and rationality… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If man has been kicked up out of that which is only impersonal by chance , then those things that make him… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“...reason rationalizes reality for him (Dr. Nathan) as it does for the rest of us, in the Freudian sense of providing a… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it. We live in a culture that… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
One of the essential differences between the liberal and conservative worldview is that the liberals believe in rationality, whereas conservative believe that… — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
“It was a fairy tale, no fooling. It was unreality becoming real. This frightened her. Because people don't care for unreality becoming… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“When the experts’ scientific knowledge is legitimated in terms of being rational, logical, efficient, educated, progressive, modern, and enlightened, what analogies can… — Martin Guevara Urbina Copy Share Image
Man has a single basic choice: to think or not, and that is the gauge of his virtue. Moral perfection is an… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living. It… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Fisher just stood there lost in thought, without saying anything. There is always a rational explanation for everything in this world -… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
The neural processes underlying that which we call creativity have nothing to do with rationality. That is to say, if we look… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The idea that reason and rationality is somehow separate from and antithetical to ones ' heart' is one of the most absurd… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
“When like-minded people argue, all they do is provide each other with new reasons supporting already held beliefs. Just like solitary reasoners,… — Hugo Mercier & Dan Sperber Copy Share Image
“To begin with rationality in opinion: I should define it merely as the habit of taking account of all relevant evidence in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Rationality is not just something you do so that you can make more money, it is a binding principle. Rationality is a… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Mental or spiritual health, which is rationality, makes for progress, and the future demands greater and greater mental or spiritual health, greater… — Jack London Copy Share Image
