Quotes About Rationality

Seventeenth-century thinkers rejected the Greek's distinction between truths that have to be - two and two make four - and truths that happen to be - gold is soft and easy to scratch. Since every facet of the universe reflected a choice made by God, chance had no role in the universe. The world was rational and orderly. "It just so happens" was impossible.

Philosophy is nothing but common sense in a dress suit.

The door to safety swings on the hinges of common sense.

Aloysius, you mad or sane today?

there comes a point where the pressure of relentless fear perforates rationality and the body moves independently of the mind.

Whenever he can, Werner records what the partisans say on magnetic tape. Everybody, he is learning, likes to hear themselves talk. Hubris, like the oldest stories. They raise the antenna too high, broadcast for too many minutes, assume the world offers safety and rationality when of course it does not.

Siga a lógica. Todo efeito tem sua causa, e todo problema tem sua solução. Toda fechadura tem sua chave.

Logic, reason, pure science: these, Aronnax insists, are the proper ways to pursue a mystery. Not fables and fairy tales.

He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.

o ateísmo é a menos racional de todas as concepções possíveis do mundo. p.179

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion, Scytale murmured.

Emotions are the curse of logic.

How easy it was to mistake clear reasoning for correct reasoning!

Ä°nsan bilinçalt?n?n derinliklerinde, anlaml? ve mant??a uygun bir evrene duyulan ihtiyaç yatar. Ama gerçek evren, mant???n hep bir ad?m ötesindedir.

Duboko u ljudskoj podsvijesti postoji nezasitna potreba za logi?no osmišljenim svijetom. Ali pravi svijet je uvijek jedan korak s druge strane logike.

Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Mike Lee, and others who raced to the microphones at the slightest hint of Obama overstepping the lines were damn quiet as Trump wildly colored outside the lines of any rational version of executive power.

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade.

Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.

Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.

I have a theatrical temperament. I'm not interested in the middle road - maybe because everyone's on it. Rationality, reasonableness bewilder me.

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.

I believe the subconscious always knows what is best. It is our conditioned, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up. So

I believe the subconscious always knows what is best. It is our conditioned, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up.

Because God is a rational being and the universe is his personal creation, it necessarily has a rational, lawful, stable structure, awaiting increased human comprehension. This is the key to many intellectual undertakings, among them, the rise of science.