I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter… — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share Image
“I do not declare that I have no intention of marrying on any general principle. If I were to see the right… — Jude Morgan Copy Share Image
Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice... Man has to be a man-by choice; he… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
By elevating the dictum of the market to the role of the sole criterion of rationality and efficiency, economics denies even all… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
In a society where rationality has ruled so long, the church frequently fails to see that in forsaking the weekly pursuit of… — James MacDonald Copy Share Image
[T]he only real moral crime that one man can commit against another is the attempt to create, by his words or actions,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I mean, I think it's a two-way relationship: I think you should not have too much faith in your own rationality. You… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
“Consider Mr. Spock of Star Trek, a naive archetype of rationality. Spock’s emotional state is always set to “calm,” even when wildly… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“To be rational, a person must have well-calibrated beliefs and must act appropriately on those beliefs to achieve goals-both properties of the… — Keith E. Stanovich Copy Share Image
In the 'in-itself' there is nothing of 'causal connections', of 'necessity', or of 'psychological non-freedom'; there the effect does not follow the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
God is great"). Conversations about the practical impossibility of God's existence and the science-based irrationality of an afterlife slid seamlessly into xenophobia… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“As Richard Nisbett and Lee Ross (1980) point out, rationally defensible deductive logic involves a specification from the universal to the particular… — Reid Hastie Copy Share Image
The age of warrior kings and of warrior presidents has passed. The nuclear age calls for a different kind of leadership… a… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
I think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world.… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“When a human being develops an argument, when a human being attempts not only to think but to speak with precision, he… — Helen DeWitt Copy Share Image
“What can we say for and about this behavioral version, this bounded rationality version, of human thinking and problem solving? The first… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
We live at a time that is notable for the polemical nature of discussions about identity, consciousness, rationality, agency, memory, and feeling.… — Robert P. George Copy Share Image
“The notion of literature as only one of several avenues to a single type of propositional knowledge is, of course, hardly the… — Peter Swirski Copy Share Image
Institutionalized desublimation thus appears to be an aspect of the "conquest of transcendence" achieved by the one-dimensional society. Just as this society… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
It is actually a nice question how far Descartes himself endorses the monological and metaphysically dualistic theory of mind associated with his… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“In the Hindu religion, one can[not] have freedom of speech. A Hindu must surrender his freedom of speech. He must act according… — B.R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
“ All of us, whether vivisector or vegan, have been subject to mechanisms undercutting sympathy for animals. How long and to what… — Brian Luke Copy Share Image
“Some may wonder whether part of the harvest of this invisible pollution (electromagnetic radiation) may be the comparative rarity of visionary experience… — Peter Redgrove Copy Share Image
For those who do not make the transition to a matured, more spiritual self-will reason will indeed be no more than rationalization.… — Kenny Smith 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
What I affirm is the intuition that where God's presence is no longer a tenable supposition and where His absence is no… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“This mundus tenebrosus, this shaddowy world of Mankind, is sunk into Night; there is not a Field without its Spirits, nor a… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
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
“Hence, contrary to the conclusion arrived at by the public goods theorists, logic forces one to accept the result that only a… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
“The true system, the real system, is our present construction of systematic thought itself, rationality itself, and if a factory is torn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every one of our sinful actions has a suicidal power on the faculties that put that action forth. When you sin with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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