Quotes About Rationality

I look at things logically. The humor I do is to go from A to B to C to D, and F is the funny.

The medieval mind assumed that the rational God created a rational universe and that human beings, made in the image of God, were rational as well and could understand the universe.

People don't demand that a thing be reasonable if their emotions are touched. Lovers aren't reasonable, are they?

People don't demand that a thing be reasonable if their emotions are touched.

The modern superstition is that we're free of superstition.

emerges from logic, not desire.

The more slender your grip on reality, the more dangerous the world becomes. On the other hand, the more rational the world you find yourself in, the more carefully it must be questioned.

Fanaticism is the opposite of love,' I said, recalling one of Khaderbhai's lectures. 'A wise man once told me--he's a Muslim, by the way--that he has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded Jew than he does with a fanatic from his own religion.

My dad was a slightly stricter version of Richard Dawkins. The worldview was that there are idiots out there who believe in Santa Claus and fairies and magic and elves, and we're not joining that nonsense.

I'm not that worried about war. Insecurity is the word I would use - insecurity and tension and conflict. I thought civilized people had abandoned wars. Sometimes people don't make rational decisions.

You can't 'work through worry and fear rationally,' because fear isn't rational!

The scientific-rational mindset is as much a cosmology as the Catholic mindset was in the Middle Ages; scientists are so proud of their mindset and convinced that it's the only reality. I find that worrying.

The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking.

America needs a strong, rational, positive, practical conservative movement. It needs that bulwark against liberal delusion and hubris. It needs a voice that says we are imperfect, that life is complex, that government can create need even as it meets need, that you can't fix everything, and freedom is worth some danger and sorrow.

The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.

Later, in the afternoon, I read what I did that morning. It's almost always a surprise. But I can read it rationally; edit, polish, re-write, and think what I might do tomorrow in the early darkness.

What we can do is provide the tools, through our educational system, for people to be able to tell sense from nonsense. These tools include the scientific method, skeptical questioning, empirical evidence, verifying sources, etc.

We are rational creatures, Professor Jove explained; hope is irrational. We thus set ourselves up for one dispiriting fall after the next. Anger and depression are not diseases or dysfunctions or anomalies; they are perfectly rational responses to the myriad avoidable disappointments that begin in a thoroughly irrational hope.

When does he ever think?" Richard straddled a chair and accepted a wind cup from Raoul. "If he were to sell his brain, he could claim it had never been used.", Chapter 7

I could come up with no answer. He had kissed my hand. The forces of gravity came unraveled; there was no cohesion at the core of the world, no order in the universe. Clouds and trees and birds and suns spun around of their own volition, freed from their laws and routines. Bryan had kissed my hand. I could not be rational; and so nothing in the world would make sense again.

It's amazing how otherwise rational people can turn into jerks when emotions run amok.

How do you get rational, well-respected people involved in your insanity? I mean is it something you taught yourself to do or is it part of your sociopathic nature?

Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning.

It's against reason, " said Filby."What reason?" said the Time Traveller.