Rationality Quotes

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The term "rational" and its variants (rationality, rationalism) are used in a lot of contexts in economic debate, both positively and negatively, but nearly always… — John Quiggin
So few of us really think. What we do is rearrange our prejudges. — George Vincent
The illogical man is what advertising is after. This is why advertising is so anti-rational; this is why it aims at uprooting not only the… — Henryk Skolimowski
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,… — Baruch Spinoza
People who have cut their teeth on philosophical problems of rationality, knowledge, perception, free will and other minds are well placed to think better about… — Simon Blackburn
In a society where rationality has ruled so long, the church frequently fails to see that in forsaking the weekly pursuit of the transcendent, we… — James MacDonald
By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. Thereâ€™s no specific line,… — Leo Ornstein
In healthy individuals, emotions don't distort rationality, they enhance it! — Andy Hargreaves
I ask the fundamental question of rationality: Why do you believe what you believe? What do you think you know and how do you think… — Eliezer Yudkowsky
"The people" is that massive portion of a society that lives by its pathetic subjection to sheer immediacy or self-obviousness, and that therefore uncritically seizes… — Kenny Smith
The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality. — Blaise Pascal
Why do we not exhaust the heritage of the ages, spiritual and material for our immediate pleasure, and let posterity go hang? So far as… — Russell Kirk
One of the essential differences between the liberal and conservative worldview is that the liberals believe in rationality, whereas conservative believe that human events are… — Thom Hartmann
The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other. Independence doesn't imply rationality… — James Surowiecki
No vital Christianity is possible unless at least three aspects of it are developed. These are the inner life of devotion, the outer life of… — D. Elton Trueblood
How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of understanding the world. — William Kentridge
For those who do not make the transition to a matured, more spiritual self-will reason will indeed be no more than rationalization. Here is a… — Kenny Smith
Rationality will not save us. — Robert McNamara
This is everything to me. If I don't have this, I don't know what else I'll be doing. I personally have found where I belong.… — John Cena

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