“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
“...there are enduring standards superior to our petty private stock of rationality.” — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Talk about rationality can get very confusing unless the things with which rationality deals are also included. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Part of the sexual revolution is bringing rationality to sexuality - because when you don't embrace sexuality in a normal way, you… — Hugh Hefner 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
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
Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known. — Michael Shermer 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“I have long been of the Opinion, says he, that the Fire was a vast Blessing and the Plague likewise; it gave… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
You hear that love is irrational all the time, yet you still hear the same people saying that love is enough to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What’s emerging from the pattern of my own life is the for belief that the crisis is being caused by the inadequacy… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
It's no understatement that the church has done a poor job in teaching our young people that reason and faith are not… — Charles Colson 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
“the thing about fear is that it defies the laws of rationality. It creates its own laws instead” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
The tangible source of exploitation disappears behind the façade of objective rationality. — Herbert Marcuse 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
“Rationality doesn’t exist; right is absence of wrongness and wrong is what seems to be unfair.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
