Quotes About Rationality

A classical view of people as "rational animals" gave way to a new idea, people as "emotional machines.

Faith is not contrary to reason.

Faith is reason grown courageous

Studying and enhancing the "information environment" for decision-making, as Rasmussen and Svedung put it, can be a good place to start.46 This information environment, after all, is where assessments are made, decisions are shaped, in which local rationality is created. It is the place where the social and the technical meet; where risk itself is constructed.

The word 'philosophy' carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird.

People who have cut their teeth on philosophical problems of rationality, knowledge, perception, free will and other minds are well placed to think better about problems of evidence, decision making, responsibility and ethics that life throws up.

the unexamined life is not worth living. It has insisted on the power of rational reflection to winnow out bad elements in our practices, and to replace them with better ones.

I'll say this for the man: He never had any problems thinking big. Thinking rationally and responsibly, yes, major problems there . . .

That love which does not build a foundation on good sense is doomed.

The problem of human suffering is never too much rational thinking, or too high a demand for evidence. But the solutions are. ... Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love.

I have heard about the civilized, the marriages run on talk, elegant and honest, rational. But and I are savages.

To reason about love is to lose reason.

But it is not reason that governs love.

Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.

I love to see folks use reason if they have got any.

Love is an excuse to be stupid

There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.

We glaze over the zeroes in the quantity and make decisions in reaction to emotional images.

Scope neglect and the identifiable victim effect encourage our intuitive innumeracy and lead to poor decision making. In contrast, most of us would endorse the goal of choosing behaviors—such as contributing money or investing our time—where we can do as much good as possible, rather than simply feeling like we made a difference.

oh my god, she said are you going to be reasonable about this?

Surely it is counterproductive to expect sense from someone you are beating senseless.

You may be able to call up an entire encyclopedia, but nothing is more meaningless than a brain with no heart and no reasoning

They might all be drinking laced Kool-Aid in there, but she had a good head on her shoulders. Things like vampires and past lives and immortality just didn't exist in the real world. And Schuyler was a card-carrying member of the real world. She didn't want to check into CrazyTown any time soon.

Feelings, which aren't always rational, have their own life span and sometimes, for whatever reason, need to be lived out.