Rationality Quotes
182 quotes by 148 authors
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against…
— Marcus Aurelius
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No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.
— Niels Bohr
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I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they…
— A. R. Ammons
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
— A. R. Ammons
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I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence of the universe…
— Wernher von Braun
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Indeed, the highest pleasure of golf may be that on the fairways and far from all the pressures of commerce and rationality, we can feel…
— Colman McCarthy
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There is joy in rationality, happiness in clarity of mind. Freethought is thrilling and fulfilling - absolutely essential to mental health and happiness.
— Dan Barker
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Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful intuition
— Henry Mintzberg
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What a deep faith in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the…
— Albert Einstein
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There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt at least…
— Stephen King
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If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, man's potentialities…
— Charles Lindbergh
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Without a commitment to science and rationality in its proper domain, there can be no solution to the problems that engulf us. Still, the Yahoos…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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I don't hold animals superior or even equal to humans. The whole case for behaving decently to animals rests on the fact that we are…
— Brigid Brophy
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It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive a view of…
— Paul Feyerabend
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In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches.
— Auguste Comte
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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…
— Derek Parfit
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Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that are beyond his control. His…
— Carl Jung
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Mystical experience of nature can be of particular relevance to our troubled age, bringing deeper into our consciousness and emotions the logic that nature sustains…
— Carl von Essen
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When in the evening we are alone with our most existential thoughts, it is then that we come face to face with the most precious…
— Michael Kirby
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If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the nature of the…
— Peter Singer
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