Quotes About Rationality

I find religion and spirituality fascinating. I would like to believe this isn't the end and there's something more, but I can't convince the rational part of me that that makes any sense whatsoever.

Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified.

Whereas economic man maximises, selects the best alternative from among all those available to him, his cousin, administrative man, satisfices, looks for a course of action that is satisfactory or 'good enough'.

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can't just pop off or lash out irrationally.

Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you.

I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.

All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

I think you can be tough and aggressive with facts in a way that you cannot be tough and aggressive with emotional retorts. Most of the people that try to be tough on TV are really just being emotional and not factual.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

Faith is not contrary to reason.

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

I realize now that this was circular reasoning impregnable to debate.

The size of an investor's brain is less important than his ability to detach the brain from the emotions.

Thinking Fast and Slow.

Reason, Observation, and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science.

Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.

It is impossible for me to see' why any belief in the supernatural is necessary to have a keen perception of right and wrong.

Homo economicus would cheat only if he stood to benefit by enough and if the odds of being caught were sufficiently low. So the mere fact that he does not have a reputation for being a cheat tells us only that he's been prudent.

Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.

A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself.

The idea that the Allies were up against a lunatic was even more terrifying than the prospect of battling a rational, though supremely evil, foe. At least you could try to outsmart a rational man; you could guess his next move and try to counteract it. A madman, on the other hand, couldn't be relied upon to act in even his own best interest. "As

If the world is rationally constructed and has meaning," Kurt said, his head down as he carefully lifted a single strand of spaghetti from his plate, "then there must be such a thing as an afterlife. Otherwise, what is the meaning of this one?" "Oh, Kurt," Adele said, "why must everything have a meaning? Maybe we are just here to eat spaghetti and talk and laugh and," she paused, replenishing her glass and raising it to her host, "drink good wine.

Learn to use your emotions to think, not think with your emotions. When