I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
A scientist, an artist, a citizen is not like a child who needs papa methodology and mama rationality to give him security… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I do not myself think there is any superior rationality in being unhappy. The wise man will be as happy as circumstances… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Mature art, I think, emerges when there's a certain balance of tensions, when there's neither neurotic prostration nor cold rationality, but an… — Earle Birney Copy Share Image
It is triple ultra forbidden to respond to criticism with violence. There are a very few injunctions in the human art of… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
It was while I was studying philosophy that I came to understand. . . that it is no sign of moral or… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“Imperfect knowledge, incomplete assessment of feedback, limited memory and recall, as well as poor problem-solving skills result in a form of rationality… — Manuel de Landa Copy Share Image
The courage to be as oneself within the atmosphere of Enlightenment is the courage to affirm oneself as a bridge from a… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
“Moreover, the question at hand concerns modes of operation or schemata of action, and not directly the subjects (or persons) who are… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Intellectually, what is stimulating to a young man is a problem of obvious practical importance. A young man learning economics, for example,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I want to be, if I can, as sure of the world--the real world--around me as is possible. Now, you can only… — James Randi Copy Share Image
If you are engaging rationality, you are already engaging a place that makes you unavailable. Only when I recognize that inspiration has… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
“Mind you, I cannot swear that my story is true. It may have been a dream; or worse, a symptom of some… — Robert Bloch Copy Share Image
Well, one time some attractive woman sat next to Charlie and asked him what he owed his success to, and, unfortunately, she… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If there is no God wouldn't you want to know? If you wore a big heavy parachute 24/7 for years in case… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
Our principles fix what our life stands for, our aims create the light our life is bathed in, and our rationality, both… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
People who have cut their teeth on philosophical problems of rationality, knowledge, perception, free will and other minds are well placed to… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
People agree to say that it is rationality and science which have eliminated what is called magic and religion. But ultimately, the… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
“When it comes to the Big Questions in Life, the preponderance of evidence should be our best advisor to inform our Beliefs.… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
“I've seen people severely messed up by their own knowledge of biases. They have more ammunition with which to argue against anything… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena. A small error in… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Rather than bring the full force of our creativity and rationality to bear on the problems of ethics, social cohesion, and even… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“The power of reason is thought small in these days, but I remain an unrepentant rationalist. Reason may be a small force,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Rationality is not unnecessary. It serves the chaos of knowledge. It serves feeling. It serves to get from this place to that… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Reason is not like the goods sold in the market places--the more plentiful they are, the less they are worth. Reason's worth… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
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“There's a whole [...] art to finding the truth and accomplishing value from inside a human mind : we have to learn… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The only shibboleth the West has is science. It is the premise of modernity and it defines itself as a rationality capable… — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
If it was as logical as that, I wouldn't continue to feel as bad as I do. I know what you're saying,… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
Addressing the conclusions of The God Delusion point by point with the devastating insight of a molecular biologist turned theologian, Alister McGrath… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Business is essentially applied rationality: a systematic process of thinking that produces a real-world result. Instead of mortgaging your life to go… — Josh Kaufman Copy Share Image
“A man’s “interests” depend on the kind of goals he chooses to pursue, his choice of goals depends on his desires, his… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out. I… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In the past, when people criticized me for asking unexpected questions, I felt ashamed. Now I realize that normal people are acting… — John Elder Robison Copy Share Image
“If we are ever going to achieve a rational approach to organizing our affairs, we have to dignify the process of admitting… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Rationality is man's basic virtue, the source of all his other virtues. Man's basic vice, the source of all evils, is the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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