Quotes About Rationality

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

I honestly cannot tell whether you are the most practical women I have ever met or the most deranged." "Why can't I be both

Fear and logic belong together.

Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.

The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

We must avoid letting our emotions override common sense.

NO matter the situation, never let your emotions overcome your intelligence!

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.

The man who feels fear without cause is a fool; but the man is twice a fool who does not feel fear when there is cause.

It would take Western science centuries to develop a truly rational branch of thinking, one that recognizes that everything is connected—the body, the natural and spiritual worlds, the wondrous and the inexplicable and the irrational.

Our faith doesn't magically make our assumptions about Jesus and the Bible true. Faith can't turn a falsehood into truth. Rightly understood, it's not a blind belief in the unbelievable; it's a rational belief based on a preponderance of evidence.

Faith is like a mental illness," Richard Dawkins has said, "a great cop out, the excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence."2 Sam Harris agrees, saying, "We have names for people who have many beliefs for which there is no rational justification. When their beliefs are extremely common, we call them religious. Otherwise, they are likely to be called mad, delusional, or psychotic."3

6. Help guide the person to a saner way of thinking when he is calm.

Stage 2 At this point, you're dealing with someone who's no longer striking out wildly but is still venting—better, but still a problem. So your next goal is to move the person from the emotional middle (mammal) brain up into the rational upper (human) brain.

According to this new evidence, most of our thinking (including our moral judgment) is not a pristinely rational process in the traditional sense, and therefore reasoning is not a bloodless, emotionless, purely formal logical process. Instead, we need an intact and functioning emotional apparatus in order for our reason to have any possibility of operating appropriately in a given situation.

Utopianism substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for knowledge, science, and reason, while laying claim to them all.

But rather than disentangle from the federal Leviathan, the recent imposition of Obamacare demonstrates that ideology trumps rationality and the statists' impulse for even more coercive and disastrous designs are never quenched.