Quotes About Rationality

Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.

What I like about the jokes, to me it's a lot of logic, no matter how crazy they are. It has to make absolute sense, or it won't be funny.

There is no logic in logics except an illogical logic.

We should respect each other as rational beings by trying to achieve our goals through reason and persuasion rather than threats and coercion.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?

The mind uses logic, the heart just doesn't understand stuff like that.

There is no impulse more rational than love. It makes life more bearable for the lover and the loved one

Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

You know that thing humans do where they think they're being completely logical and they absolutely are not being logical at all, and on some level they know that, but can't stop? Apparently it can happen to SecUnits, too.

I can fly low atmosphere craft but nobody ever thought it was remotely rational to give murderbots the modules on piloting transports.

On any longer view, man is only fitfully committed to the rational -- to thinking, seeing, learning, knowing. Believing is what he's really proud of.

The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician.

It is part of the pholosophic dullness of our time that there are millions of rational monsters walking about on their hind legs, observing the world through pairs of flexible little lenses, periodically supplying themselves with energy by pushing organic substances through holes in their faces, who see nothing fabulous whatever about themselves.

How can a reason which hates God be called sound?

Think with your head, not your heart.' He looked

If our rational brains were deprived of emotion, even the most banal decisions would become impossible.

Dad reckoned there was a rational explanation for everything, even things that made no sense at all. UFOs, ghosts, God - they're just the names people came up with for stuff they haven't worked out yet.

Thinking is good," Uman said. "We like thinking.

The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love; all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to say, a reasonable man may reasonably rejoice in its existence

My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.