“Baptize yourself with the flow of rational thinking and the world is bound to become rational.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Men prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“If you want to get men to act reasonably, you must set about persuading them in a maniacal manner.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“Historical definition of a country's borders... "...here's where my murder geography ends and your murder geography begins, at least until I get… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“The true self is that which is in touch with reality. The false self is the aspects of your personality that are… — Stefan Molyneux 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
“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
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
“Unless all that we take to be knowledge is an illusion, we must hold that in thinking we are not reading rationality… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. [They are the two sides of a coin, so learning how to manage… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“When rationality begins to break down, the circuits of the human brain can overload. Axons grow bright and feverish. Hallucinations turn real:… — Stephen King 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
I mean, I think it's a two-way relationship: I think you should not have too much faith in your own rationality. You… — Abhijit Banerjee 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
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
“Within Hobbes’ depiction of the motives for conflict. . . there is a problematic in which the grave threat that human beings… — Gregory B. Sadler Copy Share Image
“It was a good answer that was made by one who when they showed him hanging in a temple a picture of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“It's difficult to know where to begin, sir.' 'Yes, the beginning is the tricky part. But perhaps there is no beginning, perhaps… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Education levels are highly and negatively correlated to religious belief. In other words, ignorance is bliss.” — Cesar Nascimento Copy Share Image
“An unbiased appreciation of uncertainty is a cornerstone of rationality—but it is not what people and organizations want.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“It makes a lot of sense, which makes me suspect it is a call for revolution wrapped in the clothing of rationality.” — Veronica Roth 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
There is joy in rationality, happiness in clarity of mind. Freethought is thrilling and fulfilling - absolutely essential to mental health and… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion. — David Packard Copy Share Image
“Just as the moon derives the light it reflects from the sun, so the rational human mind derives a created ability to… — Ronald H. Nash Copy Share Image
“Tribalism is an addiction that is driven by false beliefs that need to be reflected back to be perceived as true.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I have a theatrical temperament. I'm not interested in the middle road - maybe because everyone's on it. Rationality, reasonableness bewilder me. — Joan Didion 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
![“Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. [They are the two sides of a coin, so learning how to manage fear through learning, understanding, rationality, controlled imagination, preparation, mental focus (including distraction) and a gratitude attitude is very helpful.]” quote by Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d90/baruch-spinoza-1338_anticipation_fear-cannot-be-without-hope-nor-hope-wit_304096.jpg)
![“[T]he only real moral crime that one man can commit against another is the attempt to create, by his words or actions, an impression of the contradictory, the impossible, the irrational, and thus shake the concept of rationality in his victim.” quote by Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93b/ayn-rand-59_action_t-he-only-real-moral-crime-that-one-man_2820871.jpg)
