Quotes About Rationality

I didn't say it was dumb. It's what you feel,and guess what?Feelings are like 3yr. olds.They're not rational. They're just there.

The strength of a belief, when it is destitute of any rational foundation, seems, of itself, to furnish a new ground for credulity. We first admit a powerful persuasion, and then, from reflecting on the insufficiency of the ground on which it is built, instead of being prompted to dismiss it, we become more forcibly attached to it.

have you taken leave of your senses

Reason. If you follow it far enough, it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

Logic is one thing, and common sense another.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade.

His madness foiled his reason...

But in things that respect the feelings, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions!

Philosophy is common sense in a dress suit.

Proverbs are the literature of reason.

The door to safety swings on the hinges of common sense.

DAWN, n. The time when men of reason go to bed.

The modern superstition is that we're free of superstition.

if people begin by thinking rationally, the danger is that they may end by acting rationally also.

Afraid? Batman's not afraid of anything. It's me. I'm afraid. I'm afraid that The Joker may be right about me. Sometimes…I question the rationality of my actions. And I'm afraid that when I walk through those asylum gates... when I walk into Arkham and the doors close behind me... it'll be just like coming home.

Haven't you heard of Occam's Razor: once you have a perfectly simple explanation for something, you don't go looking for ever more complicated ways of explaining the very same thing?

Le idee sono spesso surrogate dalle emozioni. Sono più dure a morire, resistono meglio al tempo e tanto meglio quanto più sono irrazionali.

Humor is reason gone mad.

The pre-rational view of spirituality is irrational because it is based on pre-rational worldviews, such as the magical, the belief that individual thoughts and actions directly influence the outside world ("If I dance, it will rain"); and the mythical, which is belief in unverified dogma, a worldview that usually includes a belief in an external power that can be asked to change outcomes ("If I pray to Jesus, he will intervene in my life").

For more than twenty years, I have been seeking a way to be both rational and spiritual. I have been looking for a ray of hope in an otherwise-compartmentalized world in which people segregate religious aspirations and rationality in the hope of not having to resolve the glaring gap between the two. It's a gap that seems almost impossible to bridge, but I refuse to accept that disparity.

I say we make our voices heard. For us, for our kids, I say that it is time to figure out a new approach to spirituality, one that honors rationality.

What is it about spirituality that doesn't resonate with our core value of being rational? What makes it so difficult for us to maintain our level-headed (and slightly jaded) mindset while being spiritual at the same time?

It cannot be denied that as institutions, churches do good work. They operate schools and hospitals. Their charity outreaches, which take care of the homeless, sick, and hungry, have real impacts on communities. And while there are certainly hellfire-and-brimstone preachers around, there is counterweight in Presbyterian and Methodist ministers, who are grounded in a modicum of rationality, using Biblical stories as fables to teach psychological and ethical principles.

The term trans-rational is emblematic of a worldview within which rationality is included and transcended, not repressed or dismissed.