Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Men prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“If you want to get men to act reasonably, you must set about persuading them in a maniacal manner.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Baptize yourself with the flow of rational thinking and the world is bound to become rational.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something. — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I have no great fondness for the universe, but I do live there” — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“The mock rationality of the debate conceals the arbitrariness of the will and power at work in its resolution. It” — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
“The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Unrestricted laissez faire capitalism allocates resources in a most efficient way to satisfy human wants without regard to the rationality or morality… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
As humans, we are not so rationalist as we think we are. I think our biggest quality is indeed that we are… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
Skepticism must go hand in hand with rationality. When theories are shown to be false, the correct thing to do is to… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
“Its impossible to initiate a rational dialogue with some one about beliefs and concepts if he has not acquired them through reason.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
The outcome of a non-constant-sum game may be dictated by the individual rationality of the respective players without satisfying a criterion of… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
I think excessive rationality can be very dangerous. Certainly the kind of rationality we've seen in the last hundred years, and still… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
This is everything to me. If I don't have this, I don't know what else I'll be doing. I personally have found… — John Cena Copy Share Image
The secret to Hitler's power is ... that his unconscious has exceptional access to his conscious and ... that he allows himself… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Technological rationality reveals its political character as it becomes the great vehicle of better domination, creating a truely totalitarian universe in which… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
This organization of functional discourse is of vital importance; it serves as a vehicle of coordination and subordination. The unified, functional language… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“I, therefore, for one, cannot see my way to accepting the agnostic rules for truth-seeking, or wilfully agree to keep my willing… — William James Copy Share Image
“No man need fear that by making himself rational he will make his life dull. On the contrary, since rationality consists in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence. Though… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“He looked sharply towards the pollarded trees. 'Yes, just there,' he said. 'I saw it plainly, and equally plainly I saw it… — E.F. Benson Copy Share Image
“Sorry, but I have to be who I am. Everyone else is taken... So be your self! Speak your truth - if… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“Because the way people are built, Hermione, the way people are built to feel inside -" Harry put a hand over his… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Since ancient times, the left side has stood for the side of the unconscious or the unknown; the right side, by contrast,… — Jean Gebser Copy Share Image
When you look at any experimental work not directly related to economics, but trying to test rational behavior in other ways, experiments… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
“If we accept that there will always be sides, it’s a nontrivial to-do list item to always be on the side of… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
No, it's much better to face these kinds of things With a sense of poise and rationality. — Panic At The Disco Copy Share Image
“Melancholy is an escape not from reality, but unreality of the world.” — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
It's a pleausre to find such rationality in an answer. Welcome to the debate. — Tibbie Copy Share Image
Feelings are not supposed to be logical, dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The willingness to change one’s mind in the light of new evidence is a sign of rationality not weakness.” — Stuart Sutherland Copy Share Image
The classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful. — Herbert A. Simon Copy Share Image