Rationality Quotes

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Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality. — Charles Lindbergh
New York, which is founded on forward motion and thus loath to acknowledge its dead, merely causes them to walk, endlessly unsatisfied and unburied, to… — Luc Sante
A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study… — Robert M. Pirsig
Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans â€” language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man is the only… — Paul Bloom
Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to the… — Thomas Szasz
The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence. — George Santayana
No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality. — Alfred North Whitehead
It is a wonderful thing to see a first-rate philosopher at prayer. Tough-minded thinking and tenderhearted reverence are friends, not enemies. We have for too… — Soren Kierkegaard
If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health… — Dick Wolf
The functional language is a radically anti-historical language: operational rationality has little room and little use for historical reason. — Herbert Marcuse
Technological rationality reveals its political character as it becomes the great vehicle of better domination, creating a truely totalitarian universe in which society and nature,… — Herbert Marcuse
Personally, Iâ€™ve gotten so that I now use a kind of two-track analysis. First, what are the factors that really govern the interests involved, rationally… — Charlie Munger
Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice-and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or suicidal… — John Galt
I would warn against too much of a radical devotion to rationality. Rationality is an illusion, an invented concept, a construct from the mind of… — Derek R. Audette
Reality trumps rationality. — Derek R. Audette
[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… — Ayn Rand
Sam Harris fearlessly describes a moral and intellectual emergency precipitated by religious fantasies--misguided beliefs that create suffering, that rationalize violence, that have endangered our nation… — Janna Levin
The single greatest world transformation would simply be the embrace of global reasonableness and pluralistic tolerance the global embrace of egoic-rationality (on the way to… — Ken Wilber
What I affirm is the intuition that where God's presence is no longer a tenable supposition and where His absence is no longer a felt,… — George Steiner
I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning into… — Richard Dawkins

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