Rationality Quotes
Rationality Quote of the day
You cannot expect any rational thought from a religious man. He is like a rocking log in water.
Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.
Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.
Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful intuition
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.
The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation.
The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value counts. On it centers the rationality of the status quo, and all alien rationality is bent to It.
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 service, and the intellectual life of rationality.
Skepticism must go hand in hand with rationality. When theories are shown to be false, the correct thing to do is to move on.
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.
Part of the sexual revolution is bringing rationality to sexuality. Because when you don't embrace sexuality in a normal way, you get the twisted kinds, and the kinds that destroy lives.
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man is the only animal that likes Tabasco sauce.
Traditions are neither good nor bad, they simply are... Rationality is not an arbiter of traditions, it is itself a tradition or an aspect of a tradition.
It is important to reclaim for humanity the ground that has been taken from it by various arbitrarily narrow formulations of the demands of rationality
In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches.
The problem with us EU politicians is that we approach everything with cool rationality, and then wonder why we don't win people over emotionally.
Anger may bring extra energy, but it eclipses the best part of our brain: its rationality. The energy of anger is almost always unreliable.
The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.
The functional language is a radically anti-historical language: operational rationality has little room and little use for historical reason.
Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.
It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery.
Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all.
The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.
The people I know who seem to make unusual efforts at rationality, are unusually honest, or, failing that, at least have unusually bad social skills.
Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.
The real poetry and beauty in life comes from an intense relationship with reality in all its aspects. Realism is in fact the ideal we must aspire to, the highest point of human rationality.
To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.
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 of the art of rationality itself.
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 we slip back into the sea of the unreal.
You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms.
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 outcome, you have zero knowledge.
Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.
Workers and their families may starve to death in the New World Order of economic rationality, but diamond necklaces are cheaper in elegant New York shops, thanks to the miracle of the market.
Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.
We no longer have the pact from 1997; it was radically amended in 2005 and the Commission is applying this Stability Pact with wisdom and rationality.
It considered trying to explain their error to them, but what would be the use? They would only go away with hurt feelings. You can't always expect people, or squirrels, to be rational.
To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality.