Personally, I’ve gotten so that I now use a kind of two-track analysis. First, what are the factors that really govern the… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“The mind of the most rational among us may be compared to a stormy ocean of passionate convictions based on desire, upon… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The authority of science promotes and encourages the activity of observing, comparing, measuring and ordering the physical characteristics of human bodies. Cartesian… — Cornel West 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
Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
“...Spinoza’s Conjecture:“Belief comes quickly and naturally, skepticism is slow and unnatural, and most people have a low tolerance for ambiguity. The scientific… — Michael Shermer 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
“Because the way people are built, Hermione, the way people are built to feel inside -" Harry put a hand over his… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Hatred is a form of faith, distilled by passion to remove all rationality. — L.E. Modesitt Jr Copy Share Image
It was the ghost of rationality itself ... This is the ghost of normal everyday assumptions which declares that the ultimate purpose… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it. We live in a culture that… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
“If the box contains a diamond, I desire to believe that the box contains a diamond; If the box does not contain… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Most binds involve metaphors, emotions, feelings, human qualities. Thus, the binds mostly prompt us to be rational, push us to decide one… — Ştefan Serşeniuc Copy Share Image
Men prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Since ancient times, the left side has stood for the side of the unconscious or the unknown; the right side, by contrast,… — Jean Gebser Copy Share Image
“There's a whole [...] art to finding the truth and accomplishing value from inside a human mind : we have to learn… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing. — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means… — Anonymous 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
Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I do indeed disbelieve that we or any other mortal men can attain on a given day to absolutely incorrigible and unimprovable… — William James Copy Share Image
“...reason rationalizes reality for him (Dr. Nathan) as it does for the rest of us, in the Freudian sense of providing a… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“It takes a huge amount of culture to normalize "crazy", and of course that's its main focus” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. Instead, a balance - a… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
