Quotes About Rationality

In addition, since they were committed to reasoning about God, the Jews were quick to embrace the Greek concern for valid reasoning. What emerged was an image of God as not only eternal and immutable but also as conscious, concerned, and rational. The early Christians fully accepted this image of God. They also added and emphasized the proposition that our knowledge of God and of his creation is progressive. Faith in both reason and progress were essential to the rise of the West.

The truth is that science arose only because the doctrine of the rational creator of a rational universe made scientific inquiry plausible. Similarly, the idea of progress was inherent in Jewish conceptions of history and was central to Christian thought from very early days.

Los perfiles ideológicos se han desdibujado y en su lugar predomina una lucha de la inteligencia contra la estupidez.

Crime is common but logic is rare,

Buffett's genius was largely a genius of character—of patience, discipline, and rationality.

For men who prided themselves on being disciples of reason, their drive to live on the edge seemd inexplicable, unless they believed that becoming the richest would certify them as also being the smartest.

As long as we see ourselves as rational beings who can think logically and make carefully reasoned decisions about our daily lives, then education indeed should be about the promotion of reasoned deliberation and the gaining of knowledge that will enhance our ability to reason. But suppose this conception we have of ourselves and our ability to reason logically is simply wrong?

We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.

Myth is mecessary because reality is so much larger than rationality.

Tinin yarat?c?l??? ussal, düzenli toplum ve ya?ama tarz?m?z?n yap?s?n? ve önkabulleni?lerini tehdit eder ve etmelidir. Bilinçd???, usd??? itilimler tam da do?alar?ndan ötürü ussall???m?za yönelik bir tehdit olu?turmak durumundad?rlar, o halde ya?ad???m?z kayg? kaç?n?lmazd?r.

it must be admitted that on neither side have they brought honor to the cause of reason, which they have not been able to protect against the winds of violence and folly.

Stoicism is a logical philosophy.

Rationality is a matter of making allowed moves within language games. Imagination creates the games that reason proceeds to play. Then, exemplified by people such as Plato and Newton, it keeps modifying those games so that playing them is more interesting and profitable. Reason cannot get outside of the latest circle that imagination has drawn. It is in this sense, and only in this sense, that imagination holds the primacy.

La razón posee una naturaleza pulcra y hacendosa y siempre se esfuerza por llenar de causas y efectos todos los misterios con los que se topa, al contrario de la imaginación (la loca de la casa, como la llamaba Santa Teresa de Jesús), que es pura desmesura y deslumbrante caos.

Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.

Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.

There can never be surprises in logic.

Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus.

All numbers in logic must be capable of justification.   Or rather it must become plain that there are no numbers in logic.   There are no pre-eminent numbers.

Religion as madness is a madness springing from irreligiousness.

Die Logik muss für sich selber sorgen

Mathematical logic has completely deformed the thinking of mathematicians and philosophers.

Most propositions and questions that have been written about philosophical matters are not false but senseless.

Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.