Quotes About Rationality

The moment you stop enjoying life, is the moment you've stopped thinking logically.

Those who think themselves to be civilized are not always particularly intelligent, or rational.

Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.

We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.

We all take leave of our senses, from time to time. . . . .

I have yet to meet the famous Rational Economic Man theorists describe. Real people have always done inexplicable things from time to time, and they show no sign of stopping.

dans tout combat entre le fanatisme et le sens commun, ce dernier a rarement le dessus.

Blum remarks that Kant and Hegel specify that rationality, self-control, strength of will, consistency, adherence to duty and obligation, and acting on 'universal' principles comprise moral behavior; they specifically exclude from the makeup of moral man qualities like sympathy, compassion, kindness, nurturance, and concern for the community, which are associated with women.

Galileo established what has since become the modern approach to the study of all natural phenomena.

He'd always been a man who followed his head and not his heart.The heart was just a bloody motor.The head was meant to drive

Nothing was more calming, more conducive to pure reason, than the atmosphere of money.

What manner of men are we then, if we do not have our reason," he said. "We are all no better than beasts in a jungle if that were the case. But we have reason, we can reason with each other and we can reason with ourselves. To what purpose would I start all these troubles again, the violence and the turmoil?

What manner of men are we then, if we do not have our reason.

el sentido común es la más valiosa de las virtudes políticas.

We should not allow patriotism to do violence to our lucidity, our reason, our intelligence.

Todo eso era verdad, pero también lo era que la idea de Dios no cabía en el limitado recinto de la razón humana. Había que meterla allí con calzador porque nunca encajaba del todo. Él y Herbert Ward habían hablado muchas veces de este asunto. "En lo que se refiere a Dios hay que creer, no razonar", decía Herbert. "Si razonas, Dios se esfuma como una bocanada de humo

La libertad, hija y madre de la racionalidad y del espíritu crítico, pone sobre los hombros del ser humano una pesada carga: tener que decidir por sí mismo qué le conviene y qué lo perjudica, cómo hacer frente a los innumerables retos de la existencia, si la sociedad funciona como debería ser o si es preciso transformarla.

Love is the opposite of good sense.

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary.

And this shows that intuition can sometimes get things wrong. And intuition is what people use in life to make decisions. But logic can help you work out the right answer.

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. Which is Latin and it means No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary.

you can't do anything absolutely by reason. That's because reason depends on postulates. Postulates defy proof and yet they are essential to reason.

Deberían dejarse guiar más por la razón».

To invoke alien law when it agrees with one's own thinking, and ignore it otherwise, is not reasoned decisionmaking, but sophistry.