Quotes About Rationality

True courage is more a matter of intellect than of feeling.

I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking.

When I hear theists and atheists pontificating on how they know God does or does not exist, I can only smile at the irrationality and, yes, vanity of the notion.

I'm not about to go out and buy a snake for a pet. I mean, I may have faced a few fears but I'm not insane.

I had been mad enough to study reason; I was reasonable enough to study madness.

Rendir cuentas, didonai logon de la propia vida, no es hacer el relato de esa vida, es mostrar si uno es capaz de poner de manifiesto la existencia de una relación armónica entre el logos, la razón, el discurso razonable del que uno puede valerse, y su manera de vivir.

todo el concepto de pecado deja de ser algo moral o religioso para convertirse en una cuestión de puro sentido común.

Setiap orang bisa membunuh dengan darah panas, tanpa akal sehat. Tapi akal sehat adalah yang diminta sang raja pembunuh. Akal sehat mengatakan kepada Zulaika bahwa ia tidak mungkin berhasil dalam dua serangan melawan laki-laki yang jauh lebih besar dan lebih kuat dari padanya.

B]ut pain doesn't listen to reason, it has it's own reason, which is not reasonable.

Sólo una razón nada razonable puede conducir a un horror tan irracional.

Love's reason's without reason

But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.

Feelings are invulnerable to rational thought.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

Still, your mind works true, and argues not a particulari ad universale.

Los locos siempre razonan bien, dentro de su propia esfera.

Permita que eu fique calmo, pois fora da tranquilidade só há insanidade.

Written words, if carefully laid down, represent the civilized ideal of reason.

Just repeating a statement often and with great vehemence does not make it a fact, and no amount of repetition can make a rational person believe it. —DRAIGO ROGET, report to Venport Holdings, "Analysis of Fanatical Patterns

we express a commitment to that which cannot be established by reason, or to that which can be established by reason but not for that reason.12

Todas las emociones, especialmente aquellas que son negativas, distorsionan las evaluaciones. Una persona en las garras de una emoción negativa es incapaz de pensar clara o racionalmente. Cuanto más intensa es la emoción negativa, más se desapega el sujeto de la realidad y es incapaz de razonar con claridad. Por lo mismo, habla y actúa de una manera que a menudo es inexplicable y completamente destructiva.

Cab Mulcahy was a patient man, especially for a managing editor. He had been in newspapers his entire adult life and almost nothing could provoke him. Whenever the worst kind of madness gripped the newsroom, Mulcahy would emerge to take charge, instantly imposing a rational and temperate mood.

My view is that if there is no evidence for it, then forget about it. An agnostic is somebody who doesn't believe in something until there is evidence for it, so I'm agnostic.

When we are self-indulgent and uncritical, when we confuse hopes and facts, we slide into pseudoscience and superstition.