Quotes About Rationality

In places like universities, where everyone talks too rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear.

The environments that are the most hostile from the standpoint of rationality are those that are the most commercial.

There are a variety of traits that set humans apart from our closest primate relatives. The "big four" are language, rationality, culture, and morality (or in more precise terms, "syntacticized language," "domain-general intelligence," "cumulative cultural inheritance," and "ultrasociality").

There are those to whom one must advise madness.

I tried to remain skeptical. I reminded myself that I was a man of science, even if I did usually get a C in it.

To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter.

Those who invalidate reason, ought seriously to consider, 'whether they argue against reason, with or without reason; if with reason, then they establish the principle, that they are laboring to dethrone;' but if they argue without reason, (which, in order to be consistent with themselves, they must do,) they are out of the reach of rational conviction, nor do they deserve a rational argument.

The resistance to science is idiotic.

Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.

I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I'm a very hard-headed person.

We believe, it seems, where we ought to reason. We reason where we ought to believe. We believe too blindly and not blindly enough. We reason too closely and not closely enough.

Era tremendamente eccitante, e pregnante, marciare al basso in quella sospensione di partigianesimo. Johnny si sentiva come può sentirsi un prete cattolico in borghese od un militare in borghese: le armi razionalmente celate sotto il vestito, il segno era sempre su di lui: partigiano in aeternum

Disputes are not to be decided by the weight of authority, but by the force of reason.

For the one belief we all carry with us, no matter how rational we claim to be, is a belief in our own free will.

Irrationality is the opposite of rationality: it means unreasonable, unfounded, ill-conceived. Irrationality is reason, practiced badly. A trance brought about by ecstatic dancing or drumming is certainly not rational, but it isn't irrational either. It's non-rational—it belongs to another category of experience entirely. Indeed, much of its value lies quite precisely in the fact that it takes us on a holiday away from reason—

The single difference between the theory I propose and the ideas current in modern astrophysics is that I assume that an infinite conscious intelligence preexists. You cannot get away from the preexistence of something, and whether that is an ensemble of physical laws generating infinite random universes or an infinite conscious intelligence is something present-day science cannot resolve, and indeed one view is not more rational than the other. One

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

Albert Einstein put it best: "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

The logic of human intelligence is absurd

If the argument is, "Well, that was all part of the plan," then I have to ask: How can you take the lack of evidence of a plan as evidence of a plan? That makes no sense.

a plan to spend a huge portion of your wealth during the last few weeks of life makes no sense. It's totally irrational.

I make spaces that are calm rather than confrontational. I seek a certain kind of logic that allows you to move in space and perceive it as beautiful and rational. Clarity is a worthwhile quality.

I am nothing if not rational about what is worthy of my anxiety and what is not, and I refuse to live my life as if a giant bus is just around the corner, waiting to crush me the minute I step off the curb.