The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“People who are more rational don't perceive emotion less, they just regulate it better.” — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, addicts don't respond to reason or rationality. — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
Rationalism, freedom and discipline are the three main teachers in my life. — Swaroop Copy Share Image
“The search for a new type of rationality became just another form of antirationalism.” — Joseph Heath Copy Share Image
Rationality went down the drain donkey's years ago and hasn't been seen since. — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
I ask the fundamental question of rationality: Why do you believe what you believe? What do you think you know and how… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“You should accept the fact that there's no clear boundary between you and the horse, between rationality and instinct. It's not easy… — Sibyl von der Schulenburg Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Logic, if used as the main instrument for thinking, frustrates the functions of the mind—it doesn‘t improve them. Great ideas are the… — Vizi Andrei Copy Share Image
A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The magical thinking encouraged by any belief in the supernatural, combined with the vilification of rationality and skepticism, is more conducive to… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
“You stupid woman, if rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Selfishness is a bad habit. Thats why I always rationally think through my decisions to act without regard for others. — Benson Bruno Copy Share Image
“One obvious palliative of the evils of democracy in its present form would be to encourage much more publicity and initiative on… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other. Independence… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
A man demonstrates his rationality, not by a commitment to fixed ideas, stereotyped procedures, or immutable concepts, but by the manner in… — Stephen Toulmin Copy Share Image
Before you talk - Listen It may change what you say. Before you react - Think It may change how you react.… — Unkown Copy Share Image
A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone's orders, directives, or controls;… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Consider Mr. Spock of Star Trek, a naive archetype of rationality. Spock’s emotional state is always set to “calm,” even when wildly… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
I mean, I think it's a two-way relationship: I think you should not have too much faith in your own rationality. You… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
[T]he only real moral crime that one man can commit against another is the attempt to create, by his words or actions,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
God is great"). Conversations about the practical impossibility of God's existence and the science-based irrationality of an afterlife slid seamlessly into xenophobia… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
In the 'in-itself' there is nothing of 'causal connections', of 'necessity', or of 'psychological non-freedom'; there the effect does not follow the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“To be rational, a person must have well-calibrated beliefs and must act appropriately on those beliefs to achieve goals-both properties of the… — Keith E. Stanovich Copy Share Image
There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“There is voluminous evidence that exclusive reliance on heuristic processing tendencies of Type I sometimes results in suboptimal responding (Baron, 2008; Evans,… — Keith E. Stanovich Copy Share Image
“For, from the time that the Bishop of Rome had gotten to be acknowledged for bishop universal, by pretence of succession to… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The term "rational" and its variants (rationality, rationalism) are used in a lot of contexts in economic debate, both positively and negatively,… — John Quiggin Copy Share Image
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