Rationality Quotes

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Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment. — Leo Tolstoy
Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any… — Eliezer Yudkowsky
Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count. — Albert Einstein
The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and impulses of childhood… — Herbert Marcuse
Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before… — Terence McKenna
It was the ghost of rationality itself ... This is the ghost of normal everyday assumptions which declares that the ultimate purpose of life, which… — Robert M. Pirsig
Every one of our sinful actions has a suicidal power on the faculties that put that action forth. When you sin with the mind, that… — Timothy Keller
Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there may be; who… — Stephen King
Afraid? Batman's not afraid of anything. It's me. I'm afraid. I'm afraid that The Joker may be right about me. Sometimesâ€¦I question the rationality of… — Grant Morrison
To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty. — Eliezer Yudkowsky
Iâ€™m not insane, Iâ€™m voluntarily indifferent to conventional rationality. — Jared Leto
Scientists are not the paragons of rationality, objectivity, openmindedness and humility that many of them might like others to believe. — Marcello Truzzi
If there is no wisdom, rationality can be very dangerous. — Nirmala Srivastava
It is not rational to assume, without evidence, that rationality can disclose everything about the world, just because it can disclose some things. Our intuition… — Iain McGilchrist
To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization. — Eliezer Yudkowsky
The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well,… — Robert M. Pirsig
I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans are animals, too,… — Donella Meadows
Faith is not a rational thing, and yet to understand the universe, rationality alone will not give it to us. Our understanding of the universe… — John Rhys-Davies
When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. — Rene Descartes
The only shibboleth the West has is science. It is the premise of modernity and it defines itself as a rationality capable of, indeed requiring… — Bruno Latour

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