“Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Sir, we must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization. — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos. — John Forbes Nash Copy Share Image
“Myth is mecessary because reality is so much larger than rationality.” — Rolland Hein Copy Share Image
Reason is the light, the sun of the brain. It is the compass of the mind, the ever-constant Northern Star, the mountain… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Science is wonderful at explaining what science is wonderful at explaining, but beyond that it tends to look for its car keys… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it is not… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The joy from eating does not come from the exclusivity of the food, but instead from the sensitivity that we eat it… — Nino Gruettke Copy Share Image
I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would… — Peter F. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Who is the brave man--he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
We have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogey regrettably surviving… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In a society where rationality has ruled so long, the church frequently fails to see that in forsaking the weekly pursuit of… — James MacDonald Copy Share Image
By elevating the dictum of the market to the role of the sole criterion of rationality and efficiency, economics denies even all… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice... Man has to be a man-by choice; he… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I do not declare that I have no intention of marrying on any general principle. If I were to see the right… — Jude Morgan Copy Share Image
I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter… — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share Image
Afraid? Batman's not afraid of anything. It's me. I'm afraid. I'm afraid that The Joker may be right about me. Sometimes…I question… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Rationality and the instinct of collaboration have already given us large regions and long periods of peace and prosperity. Ultimately, they will… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
I do indeed disbelieve that we or any other mortal men can attain on a given day to absolutely incorrigible and unimprovable… — William James Copy Share Image
Every one of our sinful actions has a suicidal power on the faculties that put that action forth. When you sin with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The true system, the real system, is our present construction of systematic thought itself, rationality itself, and if a factory is torn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
“Hence, contrary to the conclusion arrived at by the public goods theorists, logic forces one to accept the result that only a… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
Personally, I’ve gotten so that I now use a kind of two-track analysis. First, what are the factors that really govern the… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“This mundus tenebrosus, this shaddowy world of Mankind, is sunk into Night; there is not a Field without its Spirits, nor a… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
What I affirm is the intuition that where God's presence is no longer a tenable supposition and where His absence is no… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
It was the ghost of rationality itself ... This is the ghost of normal everyday assumptions which declares that the ultimate purpose… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
