Rationality Quotes

Like all people who have known rough times, light-heartedness seemed to her too irrational and incon...

For, from the time that the Bishop of Rome had gotten to be acknowledged for bishop universal, by pr...

It considered trying to explain their error to them, but what would be the use? They would only go a...

I, therefore, for one, cannot see my way to accepting the agnostic rules for truth-seeking, or wilfu...

The practice which obtains amongst the Americans of fixing the standard of their judgment in themsel...

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physica...

Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from...

Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims. Happiness is not the satisfaction...

Since knowledge, thinking, and rational action are properties of the individual, since the choice to...

The most flattering spin I can put on this phase of paradoxes and metaphysical tangles is that I was...

When a man tells you he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring he is an ine...

The difficulty is that, so long as unreason prevails, a solution of our troubles can only be reached...

The fact is you cannot be intelligent merely by choosing your opinions. The intelligent man is not t...

One obvious palliative of the evils of democracy in its present form would be to encourage much more...

The power of reason is thought small in these days, but I remain an unrepentant rationalist. Reason ...

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to ea...

I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief wil...

Intellectually, what is stimulating to a young man is a problem of obvious practical importance. A y...

The only kind of appeal that wins any instinctive response in party politics is an appeal to hostile...

The methods of increasing the degree of truth in our beliefs are well known; they consist in hearing...

The problem with today’s world is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opinio...

If we are ever going to achieve a rational approach to organizing our affairs, we have to dignify th...

Some information is classified legitimately; as with military hardware, secrecy sometimes really is ...

Its impossible to initiate a rational dialogue with some one about beliefs and concepts if he has no...

Her endeavor was misguided and wrong and maybe plain crazy, akin to someone waking up one day and de...

You have to choose your future regrets.

Though he never actually joined it, he was close to some civilian elements of the Democratic Front f...

It is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say ‘if I put th...

The often-used phrase “pay attention” is apt: you dispose of a limited budget of attention that you ...

Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose tou...

Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. ...

When an economist attempts to prove that it is "irrational" to vote in national elections (because t...

Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly th...

He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man)...

Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul.

Be careful... any time you find yourself defining the "winner" as someone other than the agent who i...

Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If yo...

One of chief pieces of advice I give to aspiring rationalists is "Don't try to be clever." And, "Lis...

Be careful... any time you find yourself defining the "winner" as someone other than the agent who i...

Then you get the wrong answer and you can't go to the Moon that way! Nature isn't a person, you can'...

All right," Harry said coldly. "I'll answer your original question, then. You asked why Dark Wizards...

Because the way people are built, Hermione, the way people are built to feel inside -" Harry put a h...

Logic stays true, wherever you may go,So logic never tells you where you live.

What does it mean to call for a “democratic” solution if you don’t have a conflict-resolution mechan...

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

It was a good answer that was made by one who when they showed him hanging in a temple a picture of ...

It was a good answer that was made by one who when they showed him hanging in a temple a picture of ...

It was a good answer that was made by one who when they showed him hanging in a temple a picture of ...

It was a good answer that was made by one who when they showed him hanging in a temple a picture of ...

Then are there no rules at all, Lord?” Moneo's voice conveyed a faint hint of hysteria.Leto smiled t...

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Experience cannot beat logic, and interpretations of observational evidence which are not in line wi...

So what? Why should an a priori proof of the libertarian property theory make any difference? Why no...

The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some pe...

Faith is stronger than so-called reason.

The sexual mechanisms of the two genders are just not compatible, that’s the horrible truth of it. (...

...reason rationalizes reality for him (Dr. Nathan) as it does for the rest of us, in the Freudian s...

Do you know, I sometimes, catch myself wishing that I too were blind to the facts of life and only k...

In a society where rationality has ruled so long, the church frequently fails to see that in forsaki...

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. N...

Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

You have to be a light to yourself in a world that is utterly becoming dark.

There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspe...

It's hard to imagine a more extraordinary claim than that some hidden intelligence created a univers...

The saddest thing about these imagined deathbed conversions is that, even if they were real, they co...

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

If someone does not believe in fairies, he does not need to teach his children 'There are no fairies...

Rationality or consciousness is itself a ratio or proportion among the sensuous components of experi...

Writing my own novels in the '90s...I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality woul...

Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of so...

...Spinoza’s Conjecture:“Belief comes quickly and naturally, skepticism is slow and unnatural, and m...

Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by t...

In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is...

The less evidence we have for what we believe is certain, the more violently we defend beliefs again...

In fact quite generally, commercial advertising is fundamentally an effort to undermine markets. We ...

You cannot expect any rational thought from a religious man. He is like a rocking log in water.

I want to say a word to the Brahmins: In the name of God, religion, sastras you have duped us. We we...

Only education, self-respect and rational qualities will uplift the down-trodden.

You say that it is time to shake off the Mist, but Mankind walks in a Mist; that Reason which you cr...

It's difficult to know where to begin, sir.''Yes, the beginning is the tricky part. But perhaps ther...

This mundus tenebrosus, this shaddowy world of Mankind, is sunk into Night; there is not a Field wit...

It is one of the greatest Curses visited upon Mankind, he told me, that they shall fear where no Fea...

I have long been of the Opinion, says he, that the Fire was a vast Blessing and the Plague likewise;...

And when the Duke of Alva ordered three hundred Citizens to be put to Death together at Antwerp, a L...

It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed them...

We human beings are created and yet we are more rational than the creator himself who spawned us.

And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it...

In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some pe...

The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rati...

It was a fairy tale, no fooling. It was unreality becoming real. This frightened her. Because people...

A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're...

If God meant for people to fly, He would have given them brains.

It was the ghost of rationality itself ... This is the ghost of normal everyday assumptions which de...

Not everyone understands what a completely rational process this is, this maintenance of a motorcycl...

There is no perfectly shaped part of the motorcycle and never will be, but when you come as close as...

I decided that life rationally considered seemed pointless and futile, but it is still interesting i...

Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position...

When...did it become irrational to dislike religion, any religion, even to dislike it vehemently? Wh...

.It is asking a great deal of a man, who has learnt to regulate his everyday affairs in accordance w...

People who have cut their teeth on philosophical problems of rationality, knowledge, perception, fre...