Rationality Quotes

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 immortal for a few hours.

There is light in the world, and it is us!

Better our hypotheses die for our errors than ourselves.

The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.

The inversion of external compulsion into the compulsion of conscience ... produces the machine-like assiduity and pliable allegiance required by the new rationality.

The dilemma of Brechtian performance is that, for all of Brecht's emphasis on rationality and the undermining of theatrical illusion, the actor must convincingly portray something that she is not.

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 never rest.

Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.

There's great peace in surrendering to principles

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

The outcome of a non-constant-sum game may be dictated by the individual rationality of the respective players without satisfying a criterion of collective rationality.

The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality.

Myth is necessary because reality is so much larger than rationality...man is fundamentally mythic...His real health depends upon his knowing and living his metaphysical totality.

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 you know it?

Rationality went down the drain donkey's years ago and hasn't been seen since.

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 rationality of man but his common sense.

The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral.

The tangible source of exploitation disappears behind the façade of objective rationality.

Scientists are not the paragons of rationality, objectivity, openmindedness and humility that many of them might like others to believe.

The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Talk about rationality can get very confusing unless the things with which rationality deals are also included.

Rationality is not one of this industry's attributes.

Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

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 centauric vision-logic).

Most haystacks do not even have a needle.

European policy is always an interplay of rationality and emotion.

Philosophy ought to be able to give an account of rationality that is not wholly detached from science's account of nature, even if it is not straightforwardly reducible to it.

Much of the Western world emphasizes rationality and reason, but overlooks or ignores the enormous value of intuition and instinctive wisdom.

If rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans!

With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.

Rationality will not save us.

Fantasies have to remain dirty. Cleanliness, scrupulousness and rationality are poison for eroticism.

Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.

You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.

You have to choose your future regrets.

There's a beauty to forgiveness, especially forgiveness that goes beyond rationality. Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great & powerful one

A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high order.

No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.

In healthy individuals, emotions don't distort rationality, they enhance it!

Men prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality.

We have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogey regrettably surviving from a bygone age.

The metaphoric mind includes rationality, linearity, and logic - for it created them. But like some children, the rational mind often seems embarrassed by the presence of its parents.

Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.

There is joy in rationality, happiness in clarity of mind. Freethought is thrilling and fulfilling - absolutely essential to mental health and happiness.

Reality trumps rationality.

Rationality is the master lifehack which distinguishes which other lifehacks to use.

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 again the luxury of my sincerity.

The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

I like [Barak] Obama. I like him. So how far does rationality help to persuade anybody? You know, I'm not so sure.