“The educated don't get that way by memorizing facts; they get that way by respecting them.” — Tom Heehler Copy Share Image
The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“One obvious palliative of the evils of democracy in its present form would be to encourage much more publicity and initiative on… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“This mundus tenebrosus, this shaddowy world of Mankind, is sunk into Night; there is not a Field without its Spirits, nor a… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
The illogical man is what advertising is after. This is why advertising is so anti-rational; this is why it aims at uprooting… — Henryk Skolimowski Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, addicts don't respond to reason or rationality. — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
Mature art, I think, emerges when there's a certain balance of tensions, when there's neither neurotic prostration nor cold rationality, but an… — Earle Birney Copy Share Image
“A man goes to a foreign country and kills somebody who's not aggressing against him; in a Hawaiian shirt he's a criminal,… — Stefan Molyneux 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
If we compare a severely defective human infant with a nonhuman animal, a dog or a pig, for example, we will often… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“I don’t know whom shall I ask this question! What is the rationality behind killing and murdering innocent people for the sake… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence. Though… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
The number of hypotheses available to explain any given phenomenon is infinite. — Robert M. Pirsig 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
And that, I suppose, is what I'd been trying to tell my mother that day: that her faith in justice and rationality… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos. — John Forbes Nash Copy Share Image
It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“We underestimate the power of science, and overestimate the power of personal observation. A peer-reviewed, journal-published, replicated report is worth far more… — Eliezer Yudkowsky 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
“If Quality were dropped, only rationality would remain unchanged.” — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty. — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
