Sir, we must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic. — Winston Churchill 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
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
To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization. — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
First, study the present construction. Second, ask for all past experiences ...study and read everything you can on the subject. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
“The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life. This project is ambitious but technically… — David Pearce Copy Share Image
The magical thinking encouraged by any belief in the supernatural, combined with the vilification of rationality and skepticism, is more conducive to… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
“A man’s “interests” depend on the kind of goals he chooses to pursue, his choice of goals depends on his desires, his… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“It is one of the greatest Curses visited upon Mankind, he told me, that they shall fear where no Fear is: this… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the… — Roy Blount, Jr 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
In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Reason is not like the goods sold in the market places--the more plentiful they are, the less they are worth. Reason's worth… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“The only kind of appeal that wins any instinctive response in party politics is an appeal to hostile feeling; the men who… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The single greatest world transformation would simply be the embrace of global reasonableness and pluralistic tolerance the global embrace of egoic-rationality (on… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“Melancholy is an escape not from reality, but unreality of the world.” — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
There is joy in rationality, happiness in clarity of mind. Freethought is thrilling and fulfilling - absolutely essential to mental health and… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
The most sensible person is the one who knows to put his pride in the pocket when he realizes he was wrong… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
The functional language is a radically anti-historical language: operational rationality has little room and little use for historical reason. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Well,' said Hawksmoor. 'It's a theory and a theory can do no harm.” — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
