“...there are enduring standards superior to our petty private stock of rationality.” — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“the thing about fear is that it defies the laws of rationality. It creates its own laws instead” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“Careful. When you dabble too much with reason life becomes nothing but a process of dying.” — Lucas Mascotto-Carbone Copy Share Image
“A paradox is a truth in absolute defiance of the instant powers of logic to communicate it.” — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
In healthy individuals, emotions don't distort rationality, they enhance it! — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
“It seems perverse to define intelligence as including rationality when no existing IQ test measures any such thing!” — Keith E. Stanovich Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Undoubtedly, modern Science is rational and the scientific method is based on rationality. But rationality is a wider concept, and it can… — Corrado Ghinamo Copy Share Image
Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“The world is too much for us. Rationality as we have come to know it works by ignoring most of experience: laws… — Tom Cheetham Copy Share Image
“We need no extra cunning, no new ideas, no unnecessary gadgets, no frantic hyperactivity - all we need is less rationality.” — Rolf Dobelli Copy Share Image
There's a beauty to forgiveness, especially forgiveness that goes beyond rationality. Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great &… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing. — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
People agree to say that it is rationality and science which have eliminated what is called magic and religion. But ultimately, the… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
People who have cut their teeth on philosophical problems of rationality, knowledge, perception, free will and other minds are well placed to… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
Our principles fix what our life stands for, our aims create the light our life is bathed in, and our rationality, both… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
The courage to be as oneself within the atmosphere of Enlightenment is the courage to affirm oneself as a bridge from a… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
“Imperfect knowledge, incomplete assessment of feedback, limited memory and recall, as well as poor problem-solving skills result in a form of rationality… — Manuel de Landa Copy Share Image
It was while I was studying philosophy that I came to understand. . . that it is no sign of moral or… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
It is triple ultra forbidden to respond to criticism with violence. There are a very few injunctions in the human art of… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Mature art, I think, emerges when there's a certain balance of tensions, when there's neither neurotic prostration nor cold rationality, but an… — Earle Birney Copy Share Image
“So what? Why should an a priori proof of the libertarian property theory make any difference? Why not engage in aggression anyway?”… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
If there is no God wouldn't you want to know? If you wore a big heavy parachute 24/7 for years in case… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
Well, one time some attractive woman sat next to Charlie and asked him what he owed his success to, and, unfortunately, she… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“I have a feeling," Harry said finally, "that we're coming at this from the wrong angle. There's a tale I once heard… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“It might feel, at least to some of us, that our opinions about issues such as abortion and the death penalty are… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
“The practice which obtains amongst the Americans of fixing the standard of their judgment in themselves alone, leads them to other habits… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Of course, when you shut off your brain from rational analysis, any book is dangerous. Taking literally ancient parables from thousands of… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“Life is fundamentally a mental state. We live in a dream world that we create. Whose life is truer, the rational man… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
