Quotes About Rationality

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.

If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.

I think, therefore I'll think.

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

The philosophy of reasoning, to be complete, ought to comprise the theory of bad as well as of good reasoning.

Logic is the art of making truth prevail.

The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.

Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

There's more to logic than identifying logical fallacies.

It is vain philosophy that supposes more causes than are exactly adequate to explain the phenomena of things.

Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.

Dove la moralità è troppo forte l'intelletto perisce.

When you are very rational, you may not be able to dream or live in a fairy tale.

If you're rational you don't get to believe whatever you want to believe.

Never lose your sense of common sense.

Thoughts are nothing but cause and effect.

You can't do that, it makes too much sense.

Reason is the inextinguishable impulse to philosophize with whose destruction reason itself is destroyed.

I might be crazy, but at least I'm not insane.

The trouble with socialists is that they let their bleeding hearts go to their bloody heads.

In daily life, reality gives us material incentives to restrain our irrationality. But what incentive do we have to think rationally about politics?