Quotes About Rationality

The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.

Intelligence forbids tears.

The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism.

If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.

There is the will of the people, there is the will of the mind! Always be at the side of the second one! The first one contains mostly stupidity; the second one contains always intelligence.

Intelligence is a way of thinking, not a choice of words.

Emotion will never seize to prevail logic.

Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire.

There is nothing higher than reason.

Veo las cosas tal como son. Hace muchos años que renuncié a la fantasía. No he olvidado nunca que un exceso de imaginación puede conducir a los hombres a la locura.

An employer's decision-making process is less rational than you might think.

Verás cuándo funciona mejor la lógica y cuándo deberías apoyarte en una estrategia emocional.

We all suffer from flawed thinking and decision making.

decisions made by economic actors (households, firms, the state) are constrained by limited information.

I shall always maintain that whoso says in his heart, "There is no God," while he takes the name of God upon his lips, is either a liar or a madman.

Because I am an inhuman monster, I tend to be logical,...

The linguist still believed in the superstition of logic

He quickly observed, that good sentences and excellent representations of the follies of mankind met with little regard or applause, whilst sounds, without sense, threw every body into raptures:——but 'twas the fashion of the day to be musically mad, and those who were absurd enough to prefer a rational entertainment to a flimsy opera, were poor insipid beings, without taste or enthusiasm.

If I accepted one supernatural occurrence, I should certainly accept others; it was only logical.

The world is full of people who can't think straight.

Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.

This doctrine of necessity in universality means that there is an essence to the universe which forbids relationships beyond itself, as a violation of its rationality. Speculative philosophy seeks that essence.

Knowledge guides emotion more than emotion distorts knowledge.

Openness used to be the virtue that permitted us to seek the good by using reason. It now means accepting everything and denying reason's power.