Quotes About Rationality

Whoever appeals to any science in order to justify his basic convictions inspires distrust of his honesty or his intelligence.

Posterity is not going to understand what an achievement mere good sense is in this insane century.

Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.

Don't mistake passion and purpose for demagoguery. I choose emotion over apathy. Being completely rational is overrated.

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

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.

One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Perhaps the Enlightenment itself was a psychotic break. The belief that all things could be measured

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

This tendency, greatly amplified, characterizes many of the more uncompromising biophilic thinkers who, in trying to construe love of nature as an ethical, rather than merely an esthetic, imperative, become ensnared in the constraints of their own subjectivity.21 These they mistake for sacred law. The most damning thing about this brand of nature worship is that it leads to outright contempt for scientific rationality.

Trebuie s? po?i începe ?i sfâr?i când vrei - sau trebuie s?-?i faci rost de o voin??. Voin?a e întotdeauna ra?ional? - ?i puternic?. Dac? vrei, atrunci po?i. Dar n-ai o voin?? ferm?, sau n-ai deloc, dac? e?ti ?i ac?ionezi nera?ional - dac? nu începi ?i nu încvhizi cartea când e bine ?i-n?elept s-o faci.

I forced myself to think rationally, something that is conveniently omitted from the upbringing of us women (otherwise my God how we would change the world!)

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.

Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.

Logic is logic. That's all I say.

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

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Logic, inevitably, is the love of logic. It is not the love for living human beings.

Be a likeable and relatable voice of reason.

There is always a contradiction between religion and common sense.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act according with the dictates of reason.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.