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To some extent the romantic condemnation of rationality stems from the very effectiveness of rationality in uplifting men from primitive conditions.
— Robert M. Pirsig
Don't trust thoughts because you think them, but because they obey specific trustworthy rules.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.
— John Forbes Nash
Eye-rolling is not exactly the pinnacle of socratic investigation.
— Stefan Molyneux
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
— A.R. Ammons
Stating a truth in an emotional way does not make what we say irrational; our beliefs being severed from truth and reality do.
— Patty Houser
Empathy is the sunlight to the vampire of culture.
— Stefan Molyneux
We look into our hearts and see objectivity; we look into our minds and see rationality; we look into our beliefs and see reality.
— Kathryn Schulz
In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Buffett's genius was largely a genius of character - of patience, discipline, and rationality.
— Roger Lowenstein
Humans are fundamentally irrational. They use what precious rationality they have justifying their irrational behavior. A
— Rita Mae Brown
Logic. Rationality. Reasoning. Thought. Analysis. Calculation. Decision-making. All this is within the mind of a human being, correct? Humanity
— Code Well Academy
All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.
— Herman Melville
Rationality doesn't exist; right is absence of wrongness and wrong is what seems to be unfair.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Leaders console the world with their speeches, heroes console the world with their actions.
— Amit Kalantri
The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.
— Maurice Merleau Ponty
Between Practicality and Spirituality lies Rationality!
And when the lessons 'appear', the 'intensity and clarity' can be jaw dropping ! — Abha Maryada Banerjee
And when the lessons 'appear', the 'intensity and clarity' can be jaw dropping ! — Abha Maryada Banerjee
It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality.
— Gilles Deleuze
Careful. When you dabble too much with reason life becomes nothing but a process of dying.
— Lucas Mascotto-Carbone
A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.
— Ricky Gervais
The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.
— George Santayana
The more rational we are, the more emotional we can be.
— Nino Gruettke
The term trans-rational is emblematic of a worldview within which rationality is included and transcended, not repressed or dismissed.
— Gudjon Bergmann
You have to be a light to yourself in a world that is utterly becoming dark.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high order.
— Albert Einstein
Only education, self-respect and rational qualities will uplift the down-trodden.
— Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
To want to tackle everything rationally is irrational.
— Ilyas Kassam
Of course, I rationalize the fear. I realize it's not real, that my house isn't burning down, that the deer aren't going to kill me.
— Shannon Celebi
Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.
— Orson Scott Card
Most haystacks do not even have a needle.
— Lorenzo Lamas
The educated don't get that way by memorizing facts; they get that way by respecting them.
— Tom Heehler
So few of us really think. What we do is rearrange our prejudges.
— George Vincent
Tribalism is an addiction that is driven by false beliefs that need to be reflected back to be perceived as true.
— Stefan Molyneux
Who is the brave man
he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination. — Geraldine Brooks
he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination. — Geraldine Brooks
Just as the moon derives the light it reflects from the sun, so the rational human mind derives a created ability to know from its origin, God.
— Ronald H. Nash
Logic stays true, wherever you may go,
So logic never tells you where you live. — Eliezer Yudkowsky
So logic never tells you where you live. — Eliezer Yudkowsky
The Bible is clear: Truth exists. It can be known. And when we ground our beliefs in it, we are rational.
— Patty Houser
I like [Barak] Obama. I like him. So how far does rationality help to persuade anybody? You know, I'm not so sure.
— George Saunders
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
— Lars Von Trier
The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition.
— Jerry A. Coyne
Education levels are highly and negatively correlated to religious belief. In other words, ignorance is bliss.
— Cesar Nascimento
Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.
— Michael Shermer
On your quest to spirituality it is often required to suspend your rationality; but true spirituality asks that you enhance your rationality.
— Steve Maraboli
If my brain can ttell the difference between noise and signal, my heart cannot.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Believing that there is a conflict between rationality and spirituality is like believing that there is a conflict between knowledge and inspiration.
— Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
Take practical and rational steps in maximizing your time
— Sunday Adelaja
I have no great fondness for the universe, but I do live there
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
*Only if you reject all the other paths can you discover your own path.
— U.G. Krishnamurti
But it was important to be rational at all times, not just when calm.
— Brandon Sanderson
Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money.
— Warren Buffett
Humans were eventually irrational creatures gifted with the power of rationality.
— L.E. Modesitt Jr.
A call for revolution wrapped in the clothing of rationality.
— Veronica Roth
Metaphor is thus imaginative rationality.
— George Lakoff
Sanity and apparent rationality are not the same, comrade.
— Thomas Harris
There's great peace in surrendering to principles
— Stefan Molyneux
When a man tells you he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring he is an inexact man.
— Bertrand Russell
In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.
— Krzysztof Kieslowski
Lies don't make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy.
— Stefan Molyneux
No on of intelligence resents the inevitable.
— Arthur C. Clarke
A bitter thing cannot be made sweet.
The taste of anything can be changed.
But poison cannot be changed into nectar. — B.R. Ambedkar
The taste of anything can be changed.
But poison cannot be changed into nectar. — B.R. Ambedkar
A narrow hallway is all that separates rational from irrational, creativity from insanity, and intelligence from stupidity.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
Much of the Western world emphasizes rationality and reason, but overlooks or ignores the enormous value of intuition and instinctive wisdom.
— Shakti Gawain
Better our hypotheses die for our errors than ourselves.
— Karl Popper
I ask the fundamental question of rationality: Why do you believe what you believe? What do you think you know and how do you think you know it?
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
The less evidence we have for what we believe is certain, the more violently we defend beliefs against those who don't agree.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
The willingness to change one's mind in the light of new evidence is a sign of rationality not weakness.
— Stuart Sutherland
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
— Salman Rushdie
The people I know who seem to make unusual efforts at rationality, are unusually honest, or, failing that, at least have unusually bad social skills.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
What a paradox it is, the sane causes more problems than the insane! It is! The real problems of the world do not come from the insane but, the sane!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
That's insane! But then, we're talking about a religious cult here, and cult followers aren't renowned for their rationality.
— Jennifer Bosworth
If Quality were dropped, only rationality would remain unchanged.
— Robert M. Pirsig
You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms.
— Susan Neiman
I am the one constant obstacle to my own momentum.
— Pete Vellucci Jr.
What the efficient market hypothesis doesn't account for is that people are not always rational. Just ask any divorce lawyer.
— Coreen T. Sol
Rationality will not save us.
— Robert S. McNamara
Hatred is a form of faith, distilled by passion to remove all rationality.
— L.E. Modesitt Jr.
We need to get some rationality on the Second Amendment. This is crazy what we allow ourselves.
— George Takei
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
— Euripides
I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.
— David Packard
The joy from eating does not come from the exclusivity of the food, but instead from the sensitivity that we eat it with.
— Nino Gruettke
The true system, the real system, is our present construction of systematic thought itself, rationality itself,
— Robert M. Pirsig
The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.
— Jeffrey Tucker