Talk about rationality can get very confusing unless the things with which rationality deals are also included. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“Well,' said Hawksmoor. 'It's a theory and a theory can do no harm.” — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts. — Aldous Huxley 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
It's a guy thing really means There's no rational thought pattern connected with it and you can't make it logical. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
“If we were rational enough to judge what we are fed based on what we are fed, those in the business of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Whoever desires to live among men has to obey their laws this is what the secular morality of Western civilization comes down… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
“The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Unrestricted laissez faire capitalism allocates resources in a most efficient way to satisfy human wants without regard to the rationality or morality… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
“Its impossible to initiate a rational dialogue with some one about beliefs and concepts if he has not acquired them through reason.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Skepticism must go hand in hand with rationality. When theories are shown to be false, the correct thing to do is to… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
The problem with us EU politicians is that we approach everything with cool rationality, and then wonder why we don't win people… — Martin Schulz 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In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. That's something I value. Fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerance. That's different.… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“What a deep [trust] in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small… — Albert Einstein 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...His… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“You know what? This isn't about your feelings. A human life, with all its joys and all its pains, adding up over… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
The measure of our rationality determines the degree of vividness with which we appreciate the needs of other life, the extent to… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Knowledge is a continuous fabric, in which ideas are connected to other ideas. Reason-free zones, in which people can assert arbitrary beliefs… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When you look at any experimental work not directly related to economics, but trying to test rational behavior in other ways, experiments… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
“If we accept that there will always be sides, it’s a nontrivial to-do list item to always be on the side of… — Robert M. Sapolsky 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
“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
It's no understatement that the church has done a poor job in teaching our young people that reason and faith are not… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
“I have long been of the Opinion, says he, that the Fire was a vast Blessing and the Plague likewise; it gave… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“What’s emerging from the pattern of my own life is the for belief that the crisis is being caused by the inadequacy… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Intellectually, what is stimulating to a young man is a problem of obvious practical importance. A young man learning economics, for example,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Fantasies have to remain dirty. Cleanliness, scrupulousness and rationality are poison for eroticism. — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
“In love, there is no criticism. In love, there is no rationality” — Antonia Michaelis Copy Share Image
I’m not insane, I’m voluntarily indifferent to conventional rationality. — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
“Once your fairytale gets shattered multiple times, life will finally paint reality in its place.” — VaeEshia Ratcliff-Davis Copy Share Image
“The educated don't get that way by memorizing facts; they get that way by respecting them.” — Tom Heehler Copy Share Image
“idealism mistakenly imputes a logic and rationality to culture” — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
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