“Spiritual": religion without any rules. All the comfort of fictitious friends with none of their demands.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“When a man tells you he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring he is an inexact man.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Humans were eventually irrational creatures gifted with the power of rationality. — L.E. Modesitt Jr Copy Share Image
The number of hypotheses available to explain any given phenomenon is infinite. — 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
You have to be just as mistrustful of straightforward rationality in business as you do of a uniquely gut approach. — Bernard Arnault Copy Share Image
Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“Humans, however, can’t live very long without some sense of a continuing story. Such stories go beyond the limited rational system (or… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The secret to Hitler's power is ... that his unconscious has exceptional access to his conscious and ... that he allows himself… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Conviction, far from being based upon reason, is the enemy of reason; because rationality does not change, while convictions do, all the… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“The belief in a god is irrational, and once this leap of faith is made it only takes short steps to abandon… — Al Stefanelli 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
Faith is not a rational thing, and yet to understand the universe, rationality alone will not give it to us. Our understanding… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
The people I know who seem to make unusual efforts at rationality, are unusually honest, or, failing that, at least have unusually… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of… — William Kentridge 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
What should we think of someone who never admits error, never entertains doubt but adheres unflinchingly to the same ideas all his… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. Thats something I value. Fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerance. When they… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Technological rationality reveals its political character as it becomes the great vehicle of better domination, creating a truely totalitarian universe in which… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
This organization of functional discourse is of vital importance; it serves as a vehicle of coordination and subordination. The unified, functional language… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- the more so, perhaps, for being untrained,… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest… — Richard Dawkins 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
“The Way of Bayes is also an imprecise art, at least the way I'm holding forth upon it. These blog posts are… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Mind you, I cannot swear that my story is true. It may have been a dream; or worse, a symptom of some… — Robert Bloch Copy Share Image
“I want to be, if I can, as sure of the world--the real world--around me as is possible. Now, you can only… — James Randi Copy Share Image
Sam Harris fearlessly describes a moral and intellectual emergency precipitated by religious fantasies--misguided beliefs that create suffering, that rationalize violence, that have… — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
“I really have nothing against rationality, or even doing what you think is best, or doing what is more likely to satisfy… — John R. Perry Copy Share Image
“Lightness. Let the winds of evidence blow you about as though you are a leaf, with no direction of your own. Beware… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Men prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“If you want to get men to act reasonably, you must set about persuading them in a maniacal manner.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Baptize yourself with the flow of rational thinking and the world is bound to become rational.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something. — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
No, it's much better to face these kinds of things With a sense of poise and rationality. — Panic At The Disco Copy Share Image
“Melancholy is an escape not from reality, but unreality of the world.” — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
It's a pleausre to find such rationality in an answer. Welcome to the debate. — Tibbie Copy Share Image
Feelings are not supposed to be logical, dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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