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
Myth is necessary because reality is so much larger than rationality...man is fundamentally mythic...His real health depends upon his knowing and living… — Clyde S. Kilby Copy Share Image
“The rational mind finds yielding to fear an irresistible temptation; but by indulging in this temptation, the mind slays itself.” — Théun Mares 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
“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
“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
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
“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
Researchers may like to think that, given all the facts, we make rational choices. Ask economists how that assumption works out for… — Kyle Hill 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
The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die...… — Allan Bloom 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
[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
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
We live at a time that is notable for the polemical nature of discussions about identity, consciousness, rationality, agency, memory, and feeling.… — Robert P. George 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
“As Richard Nisbett and Lee Ross (1980) point out, rationally defensible deductive logic involves a specification from the universal to the particular… — Reid Hastie 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
For those who do not make the transition to a matured, more spiritual self-will reason will indeed be no more than rationalization.… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“The goal of argumentation is to make a case so forceful (note the metaphor) that skeptics are coerced into believing it—they are… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“There are some doubters even in the western villages. One woman told me last Christmas that she did not believe either in… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“Reasonableness is a matter of degree. Beliefs can be very reasonable (Japan exists), fairly reasonable (quarks exist), not unreasonable (there's intelligent life… — Stephen Law 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
“But it was important to be rational at all times, not just when calm.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Careful. When you dabble too much with reason life becomes nothing but a process of dying.” — Lucas Mascotto-Carbone 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