Quotes About Rationality

He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.

Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational; and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.

The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.

Each man does seek his own interest, but, unfortunately, not according to the dictates of reason.

An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see.

Teach a man to reason and he will think for a lifetime.

Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

As long as men are free to speak, a small, rational minority will always prevail over an irrational majority.

Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

I don't believe in ghosts, or fairies, or crystals, or unicorns, or a man that can walk on water, or any of that non sense, I personally rely on logic, and have for the better part of my life.

Man is a conscious, rational thinker and a supra-conscious creator genius.

Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?

A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

Unlike the animal, God has given man the faculty of reason.

Put 'em on and be yourself, mister alienated loner steppenwolf bemused distant meta-izing technocrat rationalist fucking shithead.

And he can convert millions of people to his religion because it spreads like a fucking virus—people have no resistance to it because no one is used to thinking about religion, people aren't rational enough to argue about this kind of thing. Basically, anyone who reads the National Enquirer or watches pro wrestling on TV is easy to convert.

Diax said something that is still very important to us, which is that you should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake' and sometimes we repeat it to ourselves as a reminder not to let subjective emotions cloud our judgment.

For as any French-influenced courtier could explain, to insist on everything's being reasonable, in a world that wasn't, was, in itself, unreasonable.

Princes were taught a thing or two about being rational, as they were taught to play a little lute and dance a passable ricercar. But what drove their actions was their own force of will; in the end they did as they pleased, rational or not.

Pain scares him, death doesn't especially (he never expected to live so long!), but chaos, and the feeling that the world is not behaving according to rational laws, put him into the same state of animal terror as a dog who's being dissected alive but cannot understand why.

When people believe a tale that conflicts with self-checkable evidence it tells me that people undervalue the role of evidence on formulating an internal belief system. Why this is so is not clear, but it enables many people to hold fast to ideas and notions based purely on supposition.