Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos. — John Forbes Nash Copy Share Image
“Myth is mecessary because reality is so much larger than rationality.” — Rolland Hein Copy Share Image
To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization. — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
A litlte rationality lifts the quality of the debate here. Thanks for contributing! — Emmy Copy Share Image
Rationality and logic can find no truth to sustaining life in this desolate sense of being. The need to belong, but the… — Trent Thomas Copy Share Image
We have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogey regrettably surviving… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Who is the brave man--he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There’s… — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
“To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Don't believe what you're told unless your mind Confirms its truth: palm trunks, lofty as clouds, Stay wood.” — Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri Copy Share Image
“Education levels are highly and negatively correlated to religious belief. In other words, ignorance is bliss.” — Cesar Nascimento Copy Share Image
“Rash decisions will more often than not, result in the demise of chances you could have had with a situation for a… — Abhilash 'Nox' Baruah Copy Share Image
“It's no use preaching to the choir. The rulebook, evidence, and good, old-fashioned fact-checking – let alone human decency – have been… — H.M. Forester Copy Share Image
“Most reject the more repugnant or indefensible dogmas while still holding onto some core belief. Many believers will proudly describe themselves as… — Aron Ra Copy Share Image
Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice-and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And when the Duke of Alva ordered three hundred Citizens to be put to Death together at Antwerp, a Lady who saw… — Peter Ackroyd 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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
Rationality doesnt exist; right is absence of wrongness and wrong is what seems to be unfair. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is. — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
“Rationality is a luxury. It can flourish only when protected and nourished...” — Eva & Richard Blum Copy Share Image
“But it was important to be rational at all times, not just when calm.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality — Gilles Deleuze 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
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