The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Sir, we must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“People who are more rational don't perceive emotion less, they just regulate it better.” — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
The outcome of a non-constant-sum game may be dictated by the individual rationality of the respective players without satisfying a criterion of… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
The people I know who seem to make unusual efforts at rationality, are unusually honest, or, failing that, at least have unusually… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of… — William Kentridge Copy Share Image
Faith is not a rational thing, and yet to understand the universe, rationality alone will not give it to us. Our understanding… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
“The belief in a god is irrational, and once this leap of faith is made it only takes short steps to abandon… — Al Stefanelli Copy Share Image
“Conviction, far from being based upon reason, is the enemy of reason; because rationality does not change, while convictions do, all the… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
While reasons are provided by the facts,...rationality...depends instead on our beliefs. [...] [I]f I believe falsely that my hotel is on fire,… — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
“Humor today goes hand in hand with our rationality, and not just rationality in the sense of cognitive sophistication, but also in… — John Morreall Copy Share Image
“You can't distinguish your group by doing things that are rational and believing things that are true. If you want to set… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
Newtonian physics runs into problems at the subatomic level. Down there--in the land of hadrons, quarks, and Schrödinger's cat--things gent freaky. The… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
The Church of Reason, like all institutions of the System, is based not on individual strength but upon individual weakness. What's really… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
I feel like a sailor, or better, like an explorer of the immense universe of art. The artist is a discoverer in… — Augusto De Luca Copy Share Image
This insinuation of the interests of the self into even the most ideal enterprises and most universal objectives, envisaged in moments of… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
When you look at any experimental work not directly related to economics, but trying to test rational behavior in other ways, experiments… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
Since ancient times, the left side has stood for the side of the unconscious or the unknown; the right side, by contrast,… — Jean Gebser Copy Share Image
“Because the way people are built, Hermione, the way people are built to feel inside -" Harry put a hand over his… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Sorry, but I have to be who I am. Everyone else is taken... So be your self! Speak your truth - if… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“Though he never actually joined it, he was close to some civilian elements of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The rationale for accepting or rejecting any theory is thus fundamentally based on the idea of problem-solving progress. If one research tradition… — Larry Laudan 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
“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
Rationalism, freedom and discipline are the three main teachers in my life. — Swaroop Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, addicts don't respond to reason or rationality. — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The search for a new type of rationality became just another form of antirationalism.” — Joseph Heath Copy Share Image
Rationality went down the drain donkey's years ago and hasn't been seen since. — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
![“While reasons are provided by the facts,...rationality...depends instead on our beliefs. [...] [I]f I believe falsely that my hotel is on fire, it may be rational for me to jump into the canal. But I have no reason to jump. I merely think I do. And, if some dangerous treatment would save your…” quote by Derek Parfit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ed/derek-parfit-38765_action_while-reasons-are-provided-by-the-facts_2530646.png)
