“Once your fairytale gets shattered multiple times, life will finally paint reality in its place.” — VaeEshia Ratcliff-Davis Copy Share Image
I’m not insane, I’m voluntarily indifferent to conventional rationality. — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
“In love, there is no criticism. In love, there is no rationality” — Antonia Michaelis Copy Share Image
Fantasies have to remain dirty. Cleanliness, scrupulousness and rationality are poison for eroticism. — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
“The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“If we were rational enough to judge what we are fed based on what we are fed, those in the business of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The illogical man is what advertising is after. This is why advertising is so anti-rational; this is why it aims at uprooting… — Henryk Skolimowski Copy Share Image
Without a commitment to science and rationality in its proper domain, there can be no solution to the problems that engulf us.… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Ideology trumps rationality. Most conservatives cannot abide the solution to global warming - strong government regulations and a government-led effort to accelerate… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
The rationality of our universe is best suggested by the fact that we can discover more about it from any starting point,… — George Zebrowski Copy Share Image
Anger may bring extra energy, but it eclipses the best part of our brain: its rationality. The energy of anger is almost… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“If man was a logical creature: his last suspect—namely, his mouth—was going to be the first; whenever he thinks that someone, or,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. Thats something I value. Fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerance. When they… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
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
Knowledge is a continuous fabric, in which ideas are connected to other ideas. Reason-free zones, in which people can assert arbitrary beliefs… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“You know what? This isn't about your feelings. A human life, with all its joys and all its pains, adding up over… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
The measure of our rationality determines the degree of vividness with which we appreciate the needs of other life, the extent to… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I think excessive rationality can be very dangerous. Certainly the kind of rationality we've seen in the last hundred years, and still… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I regard individuality as the most precious trait we have, because without it there is no creativity, there is no consciousness, there… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“We live in what might be called a nearly empty world-one in which there are millions of variables that in principle could… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
“A man goes to a foreign country and kills somebody who's not aggressing against him; in a Hawaiian shirt he's a criminal,… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“And so come the cults, claiming to meet the needs that science has thus far failed to meet--and offering the prospective inductee… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
“Reasonableness is a matter of degree. Beliefs can be very reasonable (Japan exists), fairly reasonable (quarks exist), not unreasonable (there's intelligent life… — Stephen Law 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...His… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“As a consequence, scientists who are carefully reflective about their activity do not instinctively ask the question ‘Is it reasonable?’ as if… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
He is very fond of me, almost too fond. I could do with less caressing and more rationality. I should like to… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image