Quotes About Rationality

A PBR wasn't just a brand of blue-collar beer, it was also someone who was not dominated by neurosis, ambition, or ego. It was a person who was relatively honest, rational, and reasonable most of the time; a man or woman who had a general sense of his or her own worth and limitations, who acknowledged the worth of others, who demonstrated a sense of humor, and didn't take him- or herself too seriously.

What I believe in my heart must make sense in my mind.

Logic is not a science that discovers truths; it is just a collection of tautologies.

Religion in (the US) is so focused on fighting science and these compelling atheist voices that your preachers have lost track of what religion is really about. In... - the Eastern Church - and in Eastern religions like Buddhism and Hinduism, religion isn't there to offer theories or explanation. We accept that the divine is unknowable.....for a lot of rational people..., it's become a choice. Fact or faith. Science or religion....You shouldn't have to choose.

No validation of our rationality - of our very sanity - can be accomplished using our rationality itself. How can a person operating within a system of beliefs, including beliefs about beliefs, get outside that system to determine whether it is rational? If your entire system becomes infected with madness, including the very rules by which you reason, then how can you ever reason your way out of your madness?

We are speaking to the intelligence of Canadians, not to their emotion.

We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.

You never want to make big decisions when you are emotionally charged.

There is something cheap about magic that works just because it is magic.

The very idea of supernatural magic - including miracles - is incoherent, devoid of sensible meaning.

Science operates in the natural, not the supernatural. In fact, I go so far as to state that there is no such thing as the supernatural or the paranormal.

People who believe in science have a hard time believing in ghosts and the supernatural.

I am not scared of ghosts. I don't believe in ghosts or in the supernatural.

The more people are exposed to science, the more we will move away from superstition.

I'm not usually the guy who believes in aliens, UFOs or superstitions.

I'm one of the most superstitious people I know. There are these two battling parts of me, one is very rational and intellectual, and the other part of me, at my core, I believe in magic in a certain way, and serendipity.

For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.

Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.

I'm not one of those superstitious people.

The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.

The rationalist is not unaware of the animal impulses in man, and of the passions of man in society. The rationalist has long since abandoned the illusion that men, alone or in groups, are reasonable. He bets on the education of humanity, even if he is not sure he will win his wager.

Love is like a lot of things, it is always best done with the head. Save mindless efforts for mindless things.

Though patriarchy often claims a monopoly on rationality and reason, those committed to it will discount the most verifiable, coherent, ordinary story told by a woman and accept any fantastical account by a man, will pretend sexual violence is rare and false accusations common, and so forth.

The film nicely shows how a person may make a rational decision to achieve a goal while at the same time unconsciously doing everything possible to avoid it. It may be that what held this couple together was the very lack of sexual satisfaction or the mutual search for a solution, while the realisation of their quest proved unsatisfactory.