Quotes About Rationality

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Oricine îÅŸi susÈ›ine un argument prin apelarea la o autoritate nu îÅŸi foloseÅŸte inteligenÈ›a; el îÅŸi utilizeaz? doar memoria.

No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation

It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.

Alice didn't think that proved it at all; however, she went on: 'And how do you know that you're mad?' 'To begin with,' said the Cat, 'a dog's not mad. You grant that?' 'I suppose so,' said Alice. 'Well then,' the Cat went on, 'you see, a dog growls when it's angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad.' 'I call it purring, not growling,' said Alice.

O por el contrario, si fue así, pudo ser, y si así fuera, sería; pero como no es, no es. ¡Es pura lógica!

Algunas personas ¡Tienen menos sentido común que un bebé!

Just because I believe in science doesn't mean I ignore superstition. Sometimes there's a basis for those superstitions.

In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.

I would like to see our society mature, and become more rational and more knowledge-based, less emotion-based.

when there is no sound mind in the society people are compromised in their judgement

A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

Too much reasoning has spoiled the contemporary mind. People have lost their hearts and faith.

Contemporary moral argument is rationally interminable, because all moral, indeed all evaluative, argument is and always must be rationally interminable. Contemporary moral disagreements of a certain kind cannot be resolved, because no moral disagreements of that kind in any age, past, present or future, can be resolved.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Nonsense, seems to sum up everything.

A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high order.

What a deep [trust] in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world there must have been in Kepler and Newton to enable them to unravel the mechanism of the heavens in long years of lonely work!

For any one who is pervaded with the sense of causal law in all that happens, who accepts in real earnest the assumption of causality, the idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible. Neither the religion of fear nor the social-moral religion can have any hold on him.

A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt of the significance of those super-personal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation.

Certain it is that a conviction, akin to religious feeling, of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a higher order.... This firm belief, a belief bound up with deep feeling, in a superior mind that reveals itself in the world of experience, represents my conception of God.