Quotes About Rationality

The feast of reason and the flow of soul.

It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.

Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life, the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values. Reason is the source, the precondition of his productive work - pride is the result.

When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.

Lunatics are, unfortunately, rarely stupid.

For, seen from the outside, from a being who is alien to it, reason is simply a vast tautology.

Tú crees que Simón te quiere todo el tiempo? Claro que no. Te quiere y te odia, todo está mezclado en su interior, aunque él no te lo dirá. No, él lo mantiene en secreto y finge que dentro de él todo es plácido, unas aguas remansadas y sin olas. Igual que su forma de hablar; nuestro famoso hombre racional. Pero créeme, el viejo Simón tiene tanto lío dentro como tú y como yo.

Por supuesto, la razón validará a la razón como principio rector del universo. ¿Qué otra cosa iba a hacer? ¿Destronarse a sí misma?

la razón no es más que una enorme tautología.

Decía que finges ser un ciudadano respetable y un hombre racional, pero en realidad no eres más que un niño perdido. Así lo decía textualmente: un niño que no sabe dónde vive ni qué quiere.

La razón no es ni la esencia del universo ni mucho menos la esencia de Dios. Muy al contrario, a mí la razón se me antoja sospechosamente la esencia del pensamiento humano; peor aún, es como la esencia de una sola tendencia del pensamiento humano.

I had lost my respect for rationality long ago. The intellect is not the tool for discerning the future, it never has been and it never will be. It ranks somewhere behind random guessing and answering every question with the statement 'It'll be fine.

In Scripture, faith involves placing trust in what you have reason to believe is true. Faith is not a blind, irrational leap into the dark. So faith and reason cooperate on a biblical view of faith. They are not intrinsically hostile.

Your understanding is not required. Reality really doesn't give a shit about rational and reasonable.

Females, after all, were not just the fairer sex, but the fairly reasonable one. Which was the only reason the race had survived this long.

good thing about being logical is that you can judge both history and the present with clarity—and I'm a very logical male.

The war existing between the senses and reason.

How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.

I like what Abba Eban once said during the 1967 war. He said, "When all else fails, men turn to reason."

Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem.

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

Would not a rational society spend more on understanding and preventing, than on preparing for, the next war?

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.