The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty 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
“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
Addressing the conclusions of The God Delusion point by point with the devastating insight of a molecular biologist turned theologian, Alister McGrath… — Francis Collins 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
In the past, when people criticized me for asking unexpected questions, I felt ashamed. Now I realize that normal people are acting… — John Elder Robison Copy Share Image
“It's difficult to know where to begin, sir.' 'Yes, the beginning is the tricky part. But perhaps there is no beginning, perhaps… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“Honestly, people are definitely dumber. They just keep passing stuff around. Nobody fact-checks anything anymore — I mean, that’s how Trump got… — Paul Horner 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
A rationalism of serving any living being with a consistent ethics and morality of an unquestionable nature in any sphere of activity… — Anuj Somany 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
“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
I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence… — Wernher von Braun 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
“And when the Duke of Alva ordered three hundred Citizens to be put to Death together at Antwerp, a Lady who saw… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“The power of reason is thought small in these days, but I remain an unrepentant rationalist. Reason may be a small force,… — Bertrand Russell 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
“When like-minded people argue, all they do is provide each other with new reasons supporting already held beliefs. Just like solitary reasoners,… — Hugo Mercier & Dan Sperber Copy Share Image
There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“But it was important to be rational at all times, not just when calm.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
