Quotes About Rationality

This may sound somewhat obvious but, as the French philosopher Voltaire once famously pointed out, the main problem with common sense is that it is not so common.

Since science is without morals, it offers itself as a sanctuary from the dangers of emotional commitment.

Like a lot of people, she thought love solved everything: just smear it over the problem, and it'll all work out. Then they had the arrogance to pity you if you saw things more rationally.

Manic-depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live. It is an illness that is biological in its origins, yet one that feels psychological in the experience of it; an illness that is unique in conferring advantage and pleasure, yet one that brings in its wake almost unendurable

It's not faith you need. Only rationality

I didn't say it was a rational fear. But the worst fears aren't, are they?

You want a logical explanation? String the facts together. The scenes.

It's our responsibility to make politics less rough—more honest, more rational, less violent. If we do not do that, we fail in our patriotic duty.

Por desgracia, Jesús se aparecía a los chicos con imaginaciones febriles, no a hombres sobrios y racionales.

And Habermas: mutual understanding in unrestrained communicative action unfolded by rationality is the omega point of individual and social evolution itself.

When Thomas Jefferson sat on the steps of the White House and, with a pair of scissors, began to cut out all portions of the Bible that he felt were mythic nonsense, he was expressing a rational point of view.

Reasoning is the mental tool that use to think with

Humans were eventually irrational creatures gifted with the power of rationality.

All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.

That's why I hate the concept of falling in love. It makes you weak. It takes away your strength. Your power. Your rational sense. EVERYTHING.

Humans alone are created as rational beings in the image of God, capable of a relationship with God and given by him the capacity to understand the universe in which they live.

The real poetry and beauty in life comes from an intense relationship with reality in all its aspects. Realism is in fact the ideal we must aspire to, the highest point of human rationality.

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem (Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.)

One should not increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.

Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

Authentic humans don't show the perfect, chessmaster appreciation of consequences that von Neumann's theory demands. Instead, decision makers resort to heuristics, or mental shortcuts, to arrive at quick, intuitive choices.

There's method in his madness.

Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't.