Quotes About Rationality

We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.

I've always thought things were absurd. It would take a lot more effort for me to see things as reasonable.

What we showed you was you can have analytic reasoning that can be passionate.

We don't look at problems logically, we look at them emotionally. We look at them through the guts. We look at them as if we're doing a high school problem, like what is beautiful, what makes me recognized among my peers. We don't go and think about things. We, as a society, don't wish to engage in rational thought.

Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important because it references things that logic alone cannot.

How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.

I've never gotten into a heated argument with people. Heat diffuses reason.

There's always some kind of hidden logic.

The utilitarian person, for whom rationality is economic rationality (i.e. the maximization of utility), does not exist. Real human beings are not, for the most part, in conscious control of, or even consciously aware of, their reasoning. Most of their reason, besides, is based on various kinds of prototypes, framings, and metaphors. People seldom engage in a form of economic reason that could maximize utility.

There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.

In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.

the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane.

By lack of understanding they remained sane.

But that was merely an intellectual decision, taken because he knew that he ought to take it. He did not feel it.

By lack of understanding they remained sane. They

Pero entre estos sueños demasiado grandes, a los que se entregaban con una complacencia extraña, y la nulidad de sus acciones reales no se insertaba ningún proyecto racional, que hubiera conciliado las necesidades objetivas y sus posibilidades financieras. Los paralizaba la inmensidad de sus deseos.

The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

First law of an argument: those who remain reasonable will make others seem unreasonable.

The ritual worked. That is the most ghastly thing. I hold no particular brief for the rationality of the world, but that this vile obscenity should actually have the power to bring back the dead seems to me not merely a sign that the world is not rational, but that it is in fact entirely insane, a murderous lunatic gibbering in the corner of a padded cell.

What I know intellectually doesn't change how I feel emotionally." She

Francis Schaeffer's Escape from Reason.

We expect others to act rationally even though we are irrational.

Two primary criticisms have been raised of postmodernism.16 The first is to insist that just because one sees the world through a particular set of lenses (or biases), it does not mean that he or she is incapable of rationality or objectivity. It may make being rational and objective more difficult, but it does not make it impossible.