Quotes About Rationality

Many of us forget that nature and society are one! Yes, though we have tried to cut ourselves off from nature, we are still part of it. Like nature, our economic system remains, in the long run, stable and rational, and that's why we must not fear to be at its mercy.

In my experience, the more aggressive a woman is, the less guilty she seems. Or maybe it's the guiltier an aggressive woman is, the less rational she becomes. That's a hard thing to judge from the inside.

I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes.

Your daily choices and actions should be rational and productive

It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.

Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.

But I think you can strip the emotion and the subjectivity away while you focus on doing the science - and that's really important.

As an engineer, I learned that a long time ago: you don't want to get into a rational discussion about irrational subjects.

There is a sense of rationality and order to human error.

Don't be so superstitious.

There's no reason why a society consisting of rational beings capable of empathizing with each other, complete and having no natural reason to compete, should have a government, laws, or leaders.

if it does not appear reasonable to you, it is reasonable for you, to believe in God.

It is dangerous to asume that people can be trusted to behave in a rational way (...) What the probers are looking for, of course, are the "whys" of our behavior, so that they can more effectively manipulate our habits and choices in their favor.

Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem.

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic and it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.

Si se le da la razón a Popper, como creo que debe hacerse, la conclusión a la cual se debe llegar es que la verdad misma es enemiga de la sociedad abierta y, en particular, de toda política democrática.

Science is not going to change its commitment to the truth. We can only hope religion changes its commitment to nonsense.

The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.

Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway - we just disguise them as logic.

You can't show me an ad on TV with hard bodies and say I have to buy that car. You have to tell me why that car is better and safer than another car.

Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.

Behind the incongruity between actual and perceived reality, there always lies an element of intellectual arrogance, of intellectual rigour and dogmatism. 'It is I, not they, who know what poor people can afford', the Japanese industrialist in effect asserted. 'People behave according to economic rationality, as every good Marxist knows,' as Khrushchev implied. This explains why the incongruity is so easily exploited by innovators: they are left alone and undisturbed.