Quotes About Rationality

The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and impulses of childhood begin to tell the truth that reason denies.

All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.

So, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in Kant's and you come back again; but in very poor plight. Thus, some minds for ever keep trimming boat. Oh, ye foolish! throw all these thunder-heads overboard, and then you will float light and right.

Anybody who has something sensible or worthwhile to say should be able to say it calmly and soberly, relying on the words themselves to convey his meaning, without resorting to yelling.

There's absolutely nothing irrational about me; insane, yes, irrational, no. But my dumbest fear would be spinning in the magic tea cups. Who the hell wants to pay to spin around like a bent yoyo for laughs?

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

Traditional economics is based on imaginary creatures sometimes referred to as 'Homo economicus.' I call them Econs for short. Econs are amazingly smart and are free of emotion, distraction or self-control problems. Think Mr. Spock from 'Star Trek.'

A 'biomass' man does not use logical and analytical thinking

[Cornell University will be] an asylum for Science—where truth shall be sought for truth's sake, not stretched or cut exactly to fit Revealed Religion.

If you follow a foolish ism, how are you an intelligent being?

Feelings could override facts, as facts could alter feelings. Choose the truth first, rather than following after feelings.

In a world of stupidity a thinking man is insane

I think sex is better than logic, but I can't prove it.

assumed both the capability and the fallibility of human reason.

The Frankfurt School was profoundly mistaken in thinking that the Enlightenment—or, better, its scientific rationality—should be interpreted as triumphant or in isolation from the theory and practice of its rivals. Enlightenment thinking has always been on the defensive. That remains the case.

Haber institucionalizado la confianza en el poder de la razón es el logro más sobresaliente de la Ilustración.

Una consecuencia aún más importante del deísmo es la pérdida de la fe. En la medida en que la razón es la norma, la fe pierde, y los teístas del siglo XVIII lo sabían.

La razón es una facultad del individuo, y el respeto por la razón y el individualismo se desarrollaron a la par durante la Ilustración.

La Ilustración desarrolló aquellas características del mundo moderno que muchos dan sobradamente por sentado: política liberal y libre mercado, progreso científico e innovación tecnológica. Cada una de esas cuatro instituciones depende de la confianza en el poder de la razón.

I learned long ago that when a thing defies rational explanation then it is because I lack a complete understanding of the facts.

Logical thinking can outwit random processing!

A man demonstrates his rationality, not by a commitment to fixed ideas, stereotyped procedures, or immutable concepts, but by the manner in which, and the occasions on which, he changes those ideas, procedures, and concepts.

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.

There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.