Quotes About Rationality

In the world of minor lunacy, the behavior of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd.

The second factor contributing to speculative euphoria and programmed collapse is the specious association of money and intelligence.

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead. - Friedrich Von Schiller, as quoted by Bernard Baruch

So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.

The chief enemy of progress, ironically, became pure reason.

feeling was an integral component of the machinery of reason.

The essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action while reason leads to conclusions.

True compassion is not just an emotional response but a firm commitment founded on reason.

Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude.

Since when was an emotional argument won by logic?

I think comedy has to be an intellectual pursuit. It comes down to logic and analysis. As soon as it becomes emotional, it's not comedy anymore.

For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience or proved by the authority of Sacred Scripture.

RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.

Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned.

A failure to understand something does not mean it is irrational. It may simply mean that it lies on the far side of our limited abilities to take things in and make complete sense of them.

Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.

Faith is not a blind, irrational conviction. In order to believe, we must know what we believe, and the grounds on which our faith rests.

Faith: a firm belief for which there is no evidence.

Unshakable faith is only that which can face reason in all human epochs.

Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse.

We don't have faith in reason; we use reason because, unlike revelation, it produces results and understanding. Even discussing why we should use reason employs reason!

When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion.

This is also the age of science and technology in which human beings have progressed beyond the stage of blind faith.