Quotes About Rationality

Capitalism has severed the ties of personal dependence only to revive dependence under cover of bureaucratic rationality.

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it

Let your desires be ruled by reason. (Appetitus Rationi Pareat)

Komunisme dapat diberantas dengan pikiran sehat, bukan dengan sikap histeris.

Sin embargo, es el cientificismo y no la ciencia propiamente dicha el que desestima cualquier autoridad distinta a la suya.

Philosophy is inexistent without reason. Weigh things as they are.

There is no reasoning someone out of a position he has not reasoned himself into.

What is the use of being moral in a night-cellar, or wise in Bedlam? —WILLIAM HAZLITT,

title of many of his books and ultimately his autobiography: Models of Man (1957), Models of Discovery (1977), Models of Thought (1979 and 1989), Models of Bounded Rationality (1982), and Models of My Life (1991).

Whether ritualized or not, art contains the rationality of negation. In its advanced positions, it is the Great Refusal—the protest against that which is.

La rationalité technologique de l'univers totalitaire est la forme la plus récente qu'a pu prendre l'idée de Raison.

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.

Men are not rational beings, as commonly supposed. A man is a bundle of instincts, feelings, sentiments, which severally seek their gratification, and those which are in power get hold of reason and use it to their own ends, and exclude all other sentiments and feelings from power.

Übertreibung und Maßlosigkeit im Kampf gegen den Terrorismus diskreditiert den Kampf gegen den Terrorismus.

he feels an irrational dislike taking root, and he tries to dismiss it, because he prefers his dislikes rational, but after all, these circumstances are extreme...

Occam's Razor shaves you closer.

Fear beyond rational limits forces people to cling to normality

He possessed a great deal of philosophy, or of common sense that looked like it.

In other words, knowledge arrived at through rational thinking alone, lacking in awareness that engenders wisdom, is a dangerous thing, and the greater the knowledge, the more potentially destructive it becomes.

Es posible —sugirió Shep, para ver cómo reaccionaba ella— que te concentres en el miedo irracional para no pensar en los miedos racionales. Glynis le puso una mano en el muslo, y el tacto era tan agradable que Shep tuvo escalofríos. —Puede que no hayas ido a la universidad, querido, pero a veces eres muy inteligente.

It seems like topsy-turvyland to make reason serve the irrational. Yet that is just what it has always done, and ought always to do.

there is no such thing as a rational person. We are emotional creatures with some token capacity for reason.

In the battle between logic and crazy, crazy always wins.