Quotes About Rationality

A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.

Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.

The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

Hunger makes a fool of a man.

While men define themselves by deeds, women simply "are" beauty, grace, faith and goodness. Men tend to be rational and objective, women subjective, intuitive and emotional.

The illogical man is what advertising is after. This is why advertising is so anti-rational; this is why it aims at uprooting not only the rationality of man but his common sense.

Gan : You're never involved, are you Avon? Have you ever cared for anyone? Vila : ...Except yourself? Avon : I have never understood why it should be necessary to become irrational in order to prove that you care. Or indeed why it should be necessary to prove it - *at all*. [exits] - Blake's 7

But there is another conclusion: to laugh at logic if it runs counter to the interests of men.

Die zivilisatorische Gesamttendenz der Konstellation von rationalen Mitteln und irrationalen Zwecken

Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.

A man who lacks reason cheats himself repeatedly.

The root of liberty is the will as the subject thereof; but it is the reason as its cause. For the will can tend freely towards various objects precisely because the reason can have various perceptions of the good. Hence, philosophers define free-decision as being a free judgment arising from reason, implying that reason is the cause of liberty.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

If reason is a rebel unto faith, so is passion unto reason.

The theater in which God has chosen to meet rational creatures quietly is the inward realm of conscience, moral reasoning, prayer, and study, especially study of the revealed Word.

The optimist says, "The glass is half full." The pessimist says, "The glass is half empty." The rationalist says, "This glass is twice as big as it needs to be." That makes it clear as glass.

The optimist says, "The glass is half full." The pessimist says, "The glass is half empty." The rationalist says, "This glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

Plurality should not be posited without necessity.

As a whole, when it comes to business in general, whether it's buying a building or contract negotiations or whatever it is, you have to take emotions out of it. That's what people forget.

One has to be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane

rationality is a very narrowly restricted skill.

Opposition to idealization is simply objection to rationality; it amounts to nothing more than an insistence that we shall not have meaningful intellectual work.