Quotes About Rationality

Scientists might appear rational, but they were in fact completely at the mercy of their emotions. Because most never learned to face them.

It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.

Man is a reasoning animal.

Political ideas that have dominated the public's mind for decades cannot be refuted through rational arguments. They must run their course in life and cannot collapse otherwise than in great catastrophe…

Mises showed that the end of private property would mean the end to economic rationality.

Science is less messy than emotion

No matter how educated you are, no matter how irrational it seems, you will follow a glimmer of hope. The

The universe consists primarily of dark matter. We can't see it, but it has an enormous gravitational force. The conscious mind—much like the visible aspect of the universe—is only a small fraction of the mental world. The dark matter of the mind, the unconscious, has the greatest psychic gravity. Disregard the dark matter of the universe and anomalies appear. Ignore the dark matter of the mind and our irrationality is inexplicable.

Discernment can be described as the ability to find the root of the matter, and it relies on intuition as well as rational thought.

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or can be, namely free and equal rational beings with the liberty to choose.

Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live.

The law is reason unaffected by desire.

To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality.

Unrestricted laissez faire capitalism allocates resources in a most efficient way to satisfy human wants without regard to the rationality or morality of those desires.

The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice

Rational conduct on the basis of the idea of calling, was born... from the spirit of Christian asceticism.

But every error is due to extraneous factors (such as emotion and education); reason itself does not err.

Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

Logic, sometimes has very little to do with political action.

I believe in films that have logic behind every emotion or action.

It's just important to try to keep a cool head and stay logical rather than emotional. But then again you have to keep that balance between not becoming too logical because you need to have that passion in order to play to 100% in the game.