Quotes About Rationality

What did it matter to me? Did I think that by making you rational about one thing, I could make you rational about everything? Maybe. Or maybe I just wanted to save you from your fears

But I guess the thing about fear is that it defies the laws of rationality. It creates its own laws instead.

Bur I guess the thing about fear is that it defies the laws of rationality. It creates its own laws instead.

Did I think that by making you rational about one thing, I could make you rational about everything? Maybe. Or maybe I just wanted to save you from your fears.

the thing about fear is that it defies the laws of rationality. It creates its own laws instead

Long-term rational planning drops off the chart when men are thinking about women. It's how they're wired. Of course, we're not all that rational about them sometimes

logic, as the TFN knew, was often no more than a way of going wrong with confidence

logic is an organized way of going wrong with confidence.

I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational.

Ne?manoma prad?ti racionalaus dialogo su žmogumi apie tik?jimus ir s?vokas, jeigu jis j? ne?gijo protu. Ir nesvarbu, apie k? mes kalbame: apie Diev?, ras? ar pasididžiavim? savo t?vyne

I have an analytical mind.

Ale rozum jest zawsze czym? mizernym wobec uczucia; jest ograniczony jak wszystko, co pozytywne; uczucie jest bez kresu. Rozumowa? tam, gdzie trzeba uczu?, to w?a?ciwo?? ma?ych dusz. Vandenesse

Hay cosas absurdas que tienen toda la apariencia de un legítimo razonamiento:

Tradition makes the most horrible things acceptable to the mind which becomes blind to their deformity, and even the most detestable things, desirable, by a certain feigned sanctity which it attaches to them. But the charm once broken, the rational mind becomes transformed into another image, totally different, and entirely repugnant to the things which it before venerated as divine.

I think the best general discussion of scientific rationality is W. H. Newton-Smith's The Rationality of Science (Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981)

Another outstanding work dealing with the rationality of science is Marcello Pera's The Discourses of Science (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994

Yet the replacement thesis faces an obvious, glaring problem. As Hilary Kornblith notes, psychology can tell us how we do arrive at our beliefs, but we can still ask, "Are the processes by which we do arrive at our beliefs the ones by which we ought to arrive at our beliefs?

A rational man proportions his belief to the evidence," Hume said. The brain study cited by Shermer indicates that we too often do the opposite. We proportion our beliefs to our emotions and process the evidence as our feelings demand

A very clear and succinct statement is in the introduction to his Methods of Logic, fourth edition (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982

Science is objective not because scientists are just naturally more objective thinkers—or due to any other quirk of the scientific brain (including intelligence)—but because scientists acknowledge their biases, and construct methods to counteract them

The heart is seldom rational - the mind, sometimes.

corporations not only produce "good and services" but also "workplace conditions," and highlights the economic rationality of investing in social responsibility to enhance the well-being of employees.

People first abandon reason, and then become obstinate; and the deeper they are in error the more angry they are.

Immanuel Kant" "Noch wal