Quotes About Rationality

All their Immanuel Kants together couldn't do it! It didn't enter the heads of all their Kants to build a system of scientific ethics, that is, ethics based on adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing.

Feelings are thus not the opposite of rationality - they embody evolutionary rationality.

Referendums and elections are always about human feelings, not about human rationality.

Feelings are therefore not the opposite of rationality—they embody evolutionary rationality.

even rational leaders frequently end up doing very stupid things.

Referendums and elections are always about human feelings, not about human rationality. If democracy were a matter of rational decision-making, there would be absolutely no reason to give all people equal voting rights – or perhaps any voting rights at all.

Así, los sentimientos no son lo opuesto a la racionalidad: encarnan la racionalidad evolutiva.

If religion or spirituality makes us more disconnected from other people, less compassionate, less rational, then it is harmful. If on the other hand, it enables us to feel more love and compassion for others, and be better able to cope with the sorrowful aspects of life, then it is helpful.

Most of us fail to appreciate the extent to which our behavior is under situational control, because we prefer to believe that is all is internally generated. We wander around cloaked in an illusion of vulnerability, mis-armed with an arrogance of free will and rationality.

It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery.

Our brain is so full of nonsense there is no room for common sense.

At present the dominant story, collectively speaking, is scientific, and one aspect of the mind is given credit for advancing human evolution: rational thought. If we pity our forebears for their difficulty in getting past superstition and myth, the future may pity us for glorifying the rational mind and neglecting the whole mind.

There can be no doubt that the knowledge of logic is of considerable practical importance for everyone who desires to think and to infer correctly.

Logic is the anatomy of thought.

Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.

I think, therefore I laugh.

If we have a better understanding of knowledge than we do of such justification or competence, then we can explain the latter through the former.

Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of thinking: a way of skeptically interrogating the universe.

If you cheat on reason with emotion you will go bankrupt.

North Korea. Not only does North Korean have nuclear weapons, but their leadership appears to not be rational.

In healthy individuals, emotions don't distort rationality, they enhance it!

Lead rationally.Lead responsibly.Lead resiliently.Lead reliably.

Education: free and compulsory - what a way to learn logic!