Man has a single basic choice: to think or not, and that is the gauge of his virtue. Moral perfection is an… — Ayn Rand 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
"The people" is that massive portion of a society that lives by its pathetic subjection to sheer immediacy or self-obviousness, and that… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the… — Charles Lindbergh 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
Why do we not exhaust the heritage of the ages, spiritual and material for our immediate pleasure, and let posterity go hang?… — Russell Kirk 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
“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
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
“.It is asking a great deal of a man, who has learnt to regulate his everyday affairs in accordance with the rules… — Sigmund Freud 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
I think that's why they're so really - here's the disconnect. It's sort of this odd and I've always had this problem… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
When people say to me, 'You hate America,' I don't hate America. I love America. I am just embarrassed that it has… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“Life is fundamentally a mental state. We live in a dream world that we create. Whose life is truer, the rational man… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I do care. That's why I hunt them. But if you've seen what I have, then you learn to deal with the… — Susanne Winnacker Copy Share Image
“Of course, when you shut off your brain from rational analysis, any book is dangerous. Taking literally ancient parables from thousands of… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Rationality doesnt exist; right is absence of wrongness and wrong is what seems to be unfair. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“People who are more rational don't perceive emotion less, they just regulate it better.” — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first. — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
I’m not insane, I’m voluntarily indifferent to conventional rationality. — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
Fantasies have to remain dirty. Cleanliness, scrupulousness and rationality are poison for eroticism. — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
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