The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition. — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
“On your quest to spirituality it is often required to suspend your rationality; but true spirituality asks that you enhance your rationality.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are… — Dick Wolf Copy Share Image
You have to be just as mistrustful of straightforward rationality in business as you do of a uniquely gut approach. — Bernard Arnault Copy Share Image
“Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
One aspect of this is that rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos. — John Nash Copy Share Image
Traditions are neither good nor bad, they simply are... Rationality is not an arbiter of traditions, it is itself a tradition or… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
While reasons are provided by the facts,...rationality...depends instead on our beliefs. [...] [I]f I believe falsely that my hotel is on fire,… — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
The true function of logic ... as applied to matters of experience ... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The methods of increasing the degree of truth in our beliefs are well known; they consist in hearing all sides, trying to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Most of us fail to appreciate the extent to which our behavior is under situational control, because we prefer to believe that… — Philip Zimbardo 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
“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
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’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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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 rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans! — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“To some extent the romantic condemnation of rationality stems from the very effectiveness of rationality in uplifting men from primitive conditions.” — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
“Remaining open to the powers of conversation—to new evidence and better arguments—is not only essential for rationality. It is essential for love.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Workers and their families may starve to death in the New World Order of economic rationality, but diamond necklaces are cheaper in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
No vital Christianity is possible unless at least three aspects of it are developed. These are the inner life of devotion, the… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
“Like many another materialist, that is, he lied cleverly on the basis of insufficient knowledge, because the knowledge supplied seemed to his… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
The metaphoric mind includes rationality, linearity, and logic - for it created them. But like some children, the rational mind often seems… — Bob Samples Copy Share Image
“if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If you didn't predict that something would happen, if it took you completely by surprise, then what you believed about the world… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value counts. On it centers the rationality… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
...in this way the structure of the universe- I mean, of the heavens and the earth and the whole world- was arranged… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is important to reclaim for humanity the ground that has been taken from it by various arbitrarily narrow formulations of the… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Much of the Western world emphasizes rationality and reason, but overlooks or ignores the enormous value of intuition and instinctive wisdom. — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
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