Quotes About Rationality

Human brains are bullshit.

I don't appreciate the suggestion that I'm acting irrationally," he said. "Then don't act irrationally

Por supuesto, nada de todo esto tiene el menor sentido si te detienes a pensarlo —añadió Hester. —Nunca lo ha tenido.

Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.

Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters

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

When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.

I most fear stupid people. Stupid people will do anything. Truly smart people will do only what is logical for them to do.

When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?

Fear overrides all rational thinking

... reason accepts no commandments.

I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason.

Fear beyond rational limits forces people to cling to normality

If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity.

A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied

To expect an impossibility is madness.

The following are non-sequiturs: 'I am richer, therefore superior to you'; or 'I am a better speaker, therefore a better person, than you'.

He is a true fugitive who flies from reason.

I see the method in your madness, but there's too much madness in your method.

That was the thing about terror: it made rational people act irrationally.

That was the thing about terror: it made rational people act irrationally. From a certain perspective, the fear was more destructive than the actual killing.

There are some people to whom muddled thinking and self-deception are the two most unforgivable crimes in the world.

If you had a smattering of education you would realize that perfection of form can give validity to any sentiment, however preposterous.