Quotes About Rationality

Jis buvo gilesnio proto ir griežtesnio b?do nei aš. Logiškai m?st?, o paskui elg?si remdamasis logiška išvada. Ta?iau daugelis iš m?s?, ?tariu, daro priešingai: priima instinktyv? sprendim?, paskui kuria priežas?i? infrastrukt?r? jam pateisinti. O rezultat? pavadina sveiku protu.

The very reason we need logic at all is because most reasoning is not conscious at all.

Another peculiar characteristic of the human mind is its ability to have ideas and experiences that we cannot explain rationally. We have imagination, a faculty that enables us to think of something that is not immediately present, and that, when we first conceive it, has no objective existence. The imagination is the faculty that produces religion and mythology.

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.

Maimonides agreed that anthropomorphic descriptions of God in the Bible must not be interpreted literally, and tried to find rational reasons for some of the more irrational biblical laws. But he knew that religious experience transcended reason. The intuitive knowledge of the prophets, which was accompanied by tremulous awe, was of a higher order than the knowledge we acquire by our rational powers.

There was a growing conviction that religion had to become as rational as modern science.

Fundamentalist faith was rooted in deep fear and anxiety that could not be assuaged by a purely rational argument.

I general brzo isprazni ?ašu. Jer kamo razuman ?ovjek može pobje?i kad ne može vjerovati u svoj razum? Bolje biti pijan nego lud.

Emotion and instinct were the basis of all our decisions, our actions, everything we valued, the way we saw the world. Reason and rationality were a thin coat of paint on a ragged surface.

The idea of our own rationality...was convincing to us only because we so wished to be convinced. To any impartial observer, could such a thing exist, the sham was patent. Emotion and instinct were the basis of all our decisions, our actions, everything we valued, the way we saw the world. Reason and rationality were a thin coat of paint on a ragged surface.

you can't have a logical discussion with someone who makes up their own facts.

In our reflecting and reasoning age, a man is not worth much who cannot give a good reason for everything, no matter how bad or crazy. Everything in the world that has been done wrong, has been done wrong for the very best of reasons.

The logic of a madman is a sane man's confusion.

There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.

There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.

Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.

Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking.

To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.

On any longer view, man is only fitfully committed to the rational -- to thinking, seeing, learning, knowing. Believing is what he's really proud of.

All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.

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

A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come.

The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals.

Thomas Aquinas states parenthetically, as something entirely obvious, that men are more rational than women. For my part, I see no evidence of this.