Quotes About Rationality

Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.

We've been led astray by rationalist thought," Diotallevi said. "I keep telling you.

Vive Dios. ¿Si no por qué tomarse tanto trabajo para ser animales racionales? —Todos los grandes monos antropomorfos descienden de formas de vida inferiores, los hombres descienden de formas de vida inferiores, por tanto todos los hombres son grandes monos antropomorfos.

Nihil sequitur geminis ex particularibus unquam.

Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything... He is nearsighted and methodical, avoiding wide horizons. If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity.

The slightest contact with logic makes all false arguments disintegrate.

Mix the Protestant impulse to find the meaning and purpose in everything with the Enlightenment's empiricism, and you get our American mania for connecting all the dots,*5 irrationality in rationalist drag.

If underground militant cells were setting off hundreds of bombs and robbing banks around the country these days, of course, America would be crazed, consumed, talking of nothing else, and probably under martial law. The bombings back then seldom made the national news because a reasonable and rational Establishment was still in charge of the media discourse, determined to help Americans remain reasonable and rational.

I don't believe in empirical science. I only believe in a priori truth.

A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.

The head can't long act the part of the heart.

Feelings. Were. Stupid

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

Women do not think with logic and discretion but with emotions of the heart

often when we are in the middle of a situation and emotionally involved in it, logic and common sense disappear.

according to rationality norms requiring only internal coherence, one can be perfectly consistent, and yet wrong about everything

Il potere costituito su basi emotive è l'opposto della democrazia, che si fonda invece sulla discussione critica, sull'argomentazione, sulla ricezione di istanze molteplici: è un potere "che regredisce alla logica primitiva dell'amico/nemico, da cui la cultura occidentale ha cercato di emanciparsi proprio attraverso la politica, intesa come gestione razionale di interessi contrastanti [corsivo mio]".

It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality.

Real problems follow upon each other in a way which makes sense to the intellectual imagination.

La ortodoxia de la razón idiotiza a la humanidad mucho más que cualquier religión. Karl Kraus

Soy un utopista, pero no un loco.

Hemos llegado a ser demasiado normativos e incluso demasiado emotivos. Demasiado normativos no sólo en el sentido de que el 'deber ser' suplanta demasiado al ser, al mundo como es; sino también en el sentido de que perseguimos objetivos sin instrumentos, sin saber "cómo" . Y demasiado emotivos en el sentido de que el sentir trastorna la 'ratio' .

Emphasizing that "people make decisions for emotional reasons not rational ones," the GCHQ contends that online behavior is driven by "mirroring" ("people copy each other while in social interaction with them"), "accommodation," and "mimicry" ("adoption of specific social traits by the communicator from the other participant"). The document then lays out what it calls the "Disruption Operational Playbook.

If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?