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
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
“I, therefore, for one, cannot see my way to accepting the agnostic rules for truth-seeking, or wilfully agree to keep my willing… — William James 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
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
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
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
This is everything to me. If I don't have this, I don't know what else I'll be doing. I personally have found… — John Cena Copy Share Image
“No man need fear that by making himself rational he will make his life dull. On the contrary, since rationality consists in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Her endeavor was misguided and wrong and maybe plain crazy, akin to someone waking up one day and deciding he’s going to… — Chang-rae Lee 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
“There are some doubters even in the western villages. One woman told me last Christmas that she did not believe either in… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
The term "rational" and its variants (rationality, rationalism) are used in a lot of contexts in economic debate, both positively and negatively,… — John Quiggin Copy Share Image
“For, from the time that the Bishop of Rome had gotten to be acknowledged for bishop universal, by pretence of succession to… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“There is voluminous evidence that exclusive reliance on heuristic processing tendencies of Type I sometimes results in suboptimal responding (Baron, 2008; Evans,… — Keith E. Stanovich Copy Share Image
Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone's orders, directives, or controls;… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Before you talk - Listen It may change what you say. Before you react - Think It may change how you react.… — Unkown Copy Share Image
A man demonstrates his rationality, not by a commitment to fixed ideas, stereotyped procedures, or immutable concepts, but by the manner in… — Stephen Toulmin Copy Share Image
The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other. Independence… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
“One obvious palliative of the evils of democracy in its present form would be to encourage much more publicity and initiative on… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When in the evening we are alone with our most existential thoughts, it is then that we come face to face with… — Michael Kirby Copy Share Image
You are therefore able to run on this path, on which God is found above all vision, hearing, taste, touch, smell, speech,… — Nicholas of Cusa 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...… — Allan Bloom 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
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 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
Researchers may like to think that, given all the facts, we make rational choices. Ask economists how that assumption works out for… — Kyle Hill Copy Share Image
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. [They are the two sides of a coin, so learning how to manage… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“Unless all that we take to be knowledge is an illusion, we must hold that in thinking we are not reading rationality… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
“When rationality begins to break down, the circuits of the human brain can overload. Axons grow bright and feverish. Hallucinations turn real:… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The ontological concept of truth is in the centre of a logic which may serve as a model of pre- technological rationality.… — Herbert Marcuse 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
You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that are beyond… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and… — Herbert Marcuse 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
Rationality and the instinct of collaboration have already given us large regions and long periods of peace and prosperity. Ultimately, they will… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
Afraid? Batman's not afraid of anything. It's me. I'm afraid. I'm afraid that The Joker may be right about me. Sometimes…I question… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
![“The secret to Hitler's power is ... that his unconscious has exceptional access to his conscious and ... that he allows himself to be moved by it. [Others] have too much rationality, too much cerebrum to obey it [but] Hitler listens.” quote by Carl Jung](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/463/carl-jung-274_access_the-secret-to-hitler-s-power-is-that-his_1611754.jpg)
![“When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. That's something I value. Fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerance. That's different. When they [Conservative right wing Republicans] talk about values, they're talking about things like going to church, voting for Bush, being…” quote by Bill Maher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/307/bill-maher-211_church_when-we-talk-about-values-i-think-of-rat_1042837.png)
![“What a deep [trust] in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world there must have been in Kepler and Newton to enable them to unravel the mechanism of the heavens in long years of lonely work!” quote by Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f6/albert-einstein-33_glimpse_what-a-deep-trust-in-the-rationality-of_1936444.jpg)
![“Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. [They are the two sides of a coin, so learning how to manage fear through learning, understanding, rationality, controlled imagination, preparation, mental focus (including distraction) and a gratitude attitude is very helpful.]” quote by Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d90/baruch-spinoza-1338_anticipation_fear-cannot-be-without-hope-nor-hope-wit_304096.jpg)
