Quotes About Rationality

You underestimate the depths to which mysticism can bury rationality, Golan.

It is unscientific to suppose meaningless cases.

Un encadenamiento de razonamientosválidos sólo puede llevar a la determinación de la verdad.

You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason—if you pick the proper postulates.

There were times when a Rational could be too Rational, and chase down the tracks of every thought to the detriment of what was important.

Eliminate the impossible and whatever remained, however improbable, was the truth.

You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason — if you pick the proper postulates. We have ours and Cutie has his.

In a rather simple way. It merely required the use of that much–neglected commodity – common sense.

El orden es un arte de los seres racionales, una batalla sin tregua contra las fuerzas centrífugas, porque la dinámica natural de todo lo existente es la expansión, la multiplicación y el caos.

Common sense is very uncommon.

A man can believe in a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

No man in his senses will dance.

The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.

The tendency of modern science is to reduce proof to absurdity by continually reducing absurdity to proof.

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.

In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional forms and ceremonies.

Man is a reasoning, rather than a reasonable animal.

There is more stupidity around than hydrogen and it has longer shelf life.

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

The things I talk about and explain couldn't happen - yet, they don't seem impossible - you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane - and it's trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.