Reason is not like the goods sold in the market places--the more plentiful they are, the less they are worth. Reason's worth… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
If man has been kicked up out of that which is only impersonal by chance , then those things that make him… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
In the Soul is the awaking of Consciousness: Consciousness sets itself up as Reason, awaking at one bound to the sense of… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“The Use of the Understanding, in endeavouring to find out the Meaning of any Proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature and Evidence… — Anthony Collins Copy Share Image
It is for this reason that rationality is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species...even more, in those less… — Bertrand Russell 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
“The result is that many of the most influential, best-educated, and best-placed citizens have experienced a powerful overlearning with respect to rationality.… — James G. March Copy Share Image
“She was surprised because she was Emily, and she did not share Jonathan's frank assessment of coworkers as losers, whiners, bozos, sharks.… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
I understood, not with my intellect but with my whole being, that no theories of the rationality of existence or of progress… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“When confronted by a ‘believer’ it is easy for me to contrast the views of the skeptic with those of the rationalist.… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
Sometimes your heart tells you to help someone find their way, but your mind tells you that someone needs to find their… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler 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
“One persistent attempt to find a thread in the history of mankind focuses on the notion of Reason. Human history, on this… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
“If a ship landed in my yard and LGMs stepped out, I’d push past their literature and try to find the cable… — Peter K. Bertine 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
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
One of the essential differences between the liberal and conservative worldview is that the liberals believe in rationality, whereas conservative believe that… — Thom Hartmann 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
“When the experts’ scientific knowledge is legitimated in terms of being rational, logical, efficient, educated, progressive, modern, and enlightened, what analogies can… — Martin Guevara Urbina 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
“...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
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
“When like-minded people argue, all they do is provide each other with new reasons supporting already held beliefs. Just like solitary reasoners,… — Hugo Mercier & Dan Sperber Copy Share Image
“To begin with rationality in opinion: I should define it merely as the habit of taking account of all relevant evidence in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Mental or spiritual health, which is rationality, makes for progress, and the future demands greater and greater mental or spiritual health, greater… — Jack London 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
“Fisher just stood there lost in thought, without saying anything. There is always a rational explanation for everything in this world -… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
The neural processes underlying that which we call creativity have nothing to do with rationality. That is to say, if we look… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The idea that reason and rationality is somehow separate from and antithetical to ones ' heart' is one of the most absurd… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
I don't think we are all irrational every time we fail to see through an argument in a book, but suppose it's… — Nomy Arpaly 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
“Stanovich argues that high intelligence does not make people immune to biases. Another ability is involved, which he labels rationality. Stanovich’s concept… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
It is not rational to assume, without evidence, that rationality can disclose everything about the world, just because it can disclose some… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
“Dr. Peter Boghossian’s A Manual for Creating Atheists is a precise, passionate, compassionate and brilliantly reasoned work that will illuminate any and… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“The root of liberalism, in a word, is hatred of compulsion, for liberalism has the respect for the individual and his conscience… — Harold Edmund Stearns Copy Share Image
When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
