“Most binds involve metaphors, emotions, feelings, human qualities. Thus, the binds mostly prompt us to be rational, push us to decide one… — Ştefan Serşeniuc Copy Share Image
I don't hold animals superior or even equal to humans. The whole case for behaving decently to animals rests on the fact… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
“Informed and rationally articulated dissent contributes to growth of ideas. Uniformed dissent, expressed through lung power, is a sign of insecurity. Countering… — R. N. Prasher Copy Share Image
“One of chief pieces of advice I give to aspiring rationalists is "Don't try to be clever." And, "Listen to those quiet,… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him if he were discouraged because… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I would warn against too much of a radical devotion to rationality. Rationality is an illusion, an invented concept, a construct from… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
Dialectic, which is the parent of logic, came itself from rhetoric. Rhetoric is in turn the child of the myths and poetry… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We feel a deep pleasure from realizing that we believe something in common with our friends, and different from most people. We… — Robin Hanson 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
“It’s all well and good to have a mountain of psychological research detailing the different ways in which we routinely fail to… — Joseph Heath 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
“P.C. Hodgell said - That which can be destroyed by the truth should be . Do not flinch from experiences that might… — Eliezer Yudkowsky 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
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
“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
If you are engaging rationality, you are already engaging a place that makes you unavailable. Only when I recognize that inspiration has… — Paul Caponigro 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
“Moreover, the question at hand concerns modes of operation or schemata of action, and not directly the subjects (or persons) who are… — Michel de Certeau 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
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
“Intellectually, what is stimulating to a young man is a problem of obvious practical importance. A young man learning economics, for example,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“We underestimate the power of science, and overestimate the power of personal observation. A peer-reviewed, journal-published, replicated report is worth far more… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Then you get the wrong answer and you can't go to the Moon that way! Nature isn't a person, you can't trick… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Mystical experience of nature can be of particular relevance to our troubled age, bringing deeper into our consciousness and emotions the logic… — Carl von Essen Copy Share Image
To reduce the interpretation of the causality of all kinds of climate changes and of global warming to one variable, CO2, or… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Since knowledge, thinking, and rational action are properties of the individual, since the choice to exercise his rational faculty or not depends… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The New Man means to develop all the three dimensions of being, all the three doors to God: the head, the dimension… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“People go funny in the head when talking about politics. The evolutionary reasons for this are so obvious as to be worth… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“It's not at all uncommon to find a person's desires compelling him to go against his reason, and to see him cursing… — Plato Copy Share Image
The authority of science promotes and encourages the activity of observing, comparing, measuring and ordering the physical characteristics of human bodies. Cartesian… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Moral questions may not have objective answers-whether revealed by God or by science-but they do have rational ones, answers rooted in a… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
