The metaphoric mind includes rationality, linearity, and logic - for it created them. But like some children, the rational mind often seems… — Bob Samples Copy Share Image
The functional language is a radically anti-historical language: operational rationality has little room and little use for historical reason. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
There's a beauty to forgiveness, especially forgiveness that goes beyond rationality. Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great &… — Anonymous 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
Rationality is not a prerequisite to liberty. There is a sapient right to be free, whatever conditions we find ourselves in. We… — L Neil Smith Copy Share Image
I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we… — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
...in this way the structure of the universe- I mean, of the heavens and the earth and the whole world- was arranged… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
First, study the present construction. Second, ask for all past experiences ...study and read everything you can on the subject. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Rationality is not just something you do so that you can make more money, it is a binding principle. Rationality is a… — Charlie Munger 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
“It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living. It… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It was a fairy tale, no fooling. It was unreality becoming real. This frightened her. Because people don't care for unreality becoming… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
Man has a single basic choice: to think or not, and that is the gauge of his virtue. Moral perfection is an… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What is essential to understand at this point is that until now there was no such thing as mind and matter, subject… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Skepticism's bad rap arises from the impression that, however necessary the activity, it can only be regarded as a negative removal of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims. Happiness is not the satisfaction of whatever irrational wishes you… — Ayn Rand 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
“Some information is classified legitimately; as with military hardware, secrecy sometimes really is in the national interest. Further, military, political, and intelligence… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Rationality or consciousness is itself a ratio or proportion among the sensuous components of experience, and is not something added to such… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“The sexual mechanisms of the two genders are just not compatible, that’s the horrible truth of it. (...) This is a truth… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
“The only kind of appeal that wins any instinctive response in party politics is an appeal to hostile feeling; the men who… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“We hold these truths to be self-evident. { Franklin's edit to the assertion in Thomas Jefferson 's original wording, 'We hold these… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It is a wonderful thing to see a first-rate philosopher at prayer. Tough-minded thinking and tenderhearted reverence are friends, not enemies. We… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Much of the Western world emphasizes rationality and reason, but overlooks or ignores the enormous value of intuition and instinctive wisdom. — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
We no longer have the pact from 1997; it was radically amended in 2005 and the Commission is applying this Stability Pact… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
“A man’s “interests” depend on the kind of goals he chooses to pursue, his choice of goals depends on his desires, his… — Ayn Rand 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
You cannot measure rationality, you cannot determine whether a state is rational or not, by looking at outcomes - there's almost universal… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
The only shibboleth the West has is science. It is the premise of modernity and it defines itself as a rationality capable… — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“You need one whole hell of a lot of rationality before it does anything but lead you into new and interesting mistakes.” — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
The most sensible person is the one who knows to put his pride in the pocket when he realizes he was wrong… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
I have a theatrical temperament. I'm not interested in the middle road - maybe because everyone's on it. Rationality, reasonableness bewilder me. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Just as the moon derives the light it reflects from the sun, so the rational human mind derives a created ability to… — Ronald H. Nash Copy Share Image
There is joy in rationality, happiness in clarity of mind. Freethought is thrilling and fulfilling - absolutely essential to mental health and… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Undoubtedly, modern Science is rational and the scientific method is based on rationality. But rationality is a wider concept, and it can… — Corrado Ghinamo Copy Share Image
