Quotes About Rationality

Therefore, Simon argues, when they make their choices, human beings satisfice, that is, we look for 'good enough' solutions rather than the best ones, as in the Neoclassical theory.25

The modesty that theology needs is the recognition that we cannot rationally comprehend God.

A nontheological faith cannot explain itself, but a too theological faith loses contact with the reason for its existence.

Technically, psychopaths aren't legally insane. They know the difference between right and wrong. They are rational, often highly intelligent people. Some are capable of great charm. Indeed, the scariest thing about them is that they seem so normal.

Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

Like you, my boy, I am a Scientific Humanist and feel no need for the aid of the supernatural.

Faptul ca un om a avut parte de o pregatire stiintifica nu inseamna neaparat ca el urmeaza sa aiba un comportament stiintific tot timpul.

Faith in the power of reason is the central pillar of the modern worldview.

Tal y como lo planteó Downs, el hombre racional «persigue sus objetivos de un modo tal que, en la medida de sus posibilidades, utilizará la mínima cantidad de recursos escasos por unidad de resultados obtenidos». Esto también exigía centrarse en un aspecto concreto de un individuo y no en «toda su personalidad».

las políticas racionales podían imponerse a la guerra, pero siempre estaban compitiendo con las ciegas fuerzas naturales de la «violencia, el odio y la enemistad»,

situarse en el ámbito del Sistema 2, pero ha de entenderse sobre todo como la capacidad para elaborar y convertir en argumentos persuasivos lo que esencialmente es Sistema 1.

Sometimes fear does the work of reason.

Feelings aren't supposed to be rational. If we stop judging fears as invalid, we can find a deeper empathy.

A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa, whether or not we like the implications.

It has not been the fashion to be scientific about religion, but it is necessary that we should be scientific; it is time that we examined ourselves as to our faith and tried to know what we believe and why, and on what we base our belief.

Being convinced that reason operates automatically within him he orders his life and his government upon emotion and superstition.

Science ... is organized common sense.

Love, it seems, fits perfectly into no one of these molds for it may be all at once; a state of ecstasy, a state of joy, a state of disillusionment, a rational state or an irrational state

The example of a syllogism that he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic: Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal, had throughout his whole life seemed to him right only in relation to Caius, but not to him at all.

For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.

Hay?rseverliÄŸine hayram?m, diye konuÅŸtu Mary, Ama yine de bütün duygusal dürtüler mant?kla yönlendirilmelidir. Åžahsen fikrimi sorarsan; insan?n harcad??? her emek daima kendisinden talep edilenle doÄŸru orant?l? olmal?d?r.

Hay?rseverliÄŸine hayran?m, diye konuÅŸtu Mary, Ama yine de bütün duygusal dürtüler mant?kla yönlendirilmelidir. Åžahsen fikrimi sorarsan; insan?n harcad??? her emek daima kendisinden talep edilenle doÄŸru orant?l? olmal?d?r.

Do not consider me now as an elegant female, intending to plague you, but as a rational creature, speaking the truth from her heart.

I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either were concerned.