Quotes About Rationality

Faith is a device of self-delusion, a sleight of hand done with words and emotions founded on any irrational notion that can be dreamed up. Faith is the attempt to coerce truth to surrender to whim. In simple terms, it is trying to breath life into a lie by trying to outshine reality with the beauty of wishes. Faith is the refuge of fools, the ignorant, and the deluded,not of thinking rational people.

I hate magic, Berdine muttered. It makes no sense.

Wizard's Sixth Rule: the only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.

The enemy isn't men, or women, it's bloody stupid people and no one has the right to be stupid.

When all else failed, she tried being reasonable.

rational thoughts made out of insane components.

Somewhere deep inside his mind, somewhere beyond the event horizon of rationality, the sheer pressure of insanity had hammered his madness into something harder than diamond.

Science is not interested in what stands to reason.

logic is only a way of being ignorant by numbers.

The thing about late-night cookery was that it made sense at the time. It always had some logic behind it. It just wasn't the kind of logic you'd use around midday.

Between every rational moment were a billion irrational ones.

Well, the way I see it, logic is only a way of being ignorant by numbers.

Human beings have always preferred common sense to logic.

He believed in rational thinking and scientific inquiry, which was why he never won an argument with his mother, who believed in people doing what she told them, and believed it with a rock-hard certainty which dismissed all opposition.

An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic.

No rational person would intentionally commit an act of evil, for everyone knows that it would bring the wrath of the community upon him. (Socrates)

Emotion apparently made fools of even geniuses.

Occam's razor: The simplest explanation that accommodates all variables is most likely the truth.

once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how unlikely, must be the truth.

Existenz only becomes clear through reason; reason only has content through Existenz.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

A rationalist is simply someone for whom it is more important to learn than to be proved right; someone who is willing to learn from others - not by simply taking over another's opinions, but by gladly allowing others to criticize his ideas and by gladly criticizing the ideas of others

a rational analysis of the consequences of a decision does not make the decision rational; the consequences do not determine our decision; it is always we who decide.