346 Quotes About Rationality

Solzhenitsyn described this: It would be hard to identify the exact source of that inner intuition, not founded on rational argument, which prompted our refusal to enter the NKVD schools… People can shout at you from all sides: ‘You must!’ And your own head can be saying also: ‘You must!’ But inside your breast there is a sense of revulsion, repudiation. I don’t want to. It makes me feel sick. Do what you want without me; I want no part of it.

A man who does not question his own judgment, society, and who flourishes between deceit and bewilderment, fails his moral responsibility as a rational being.

It takes irrationality to hold, but intelligence to profit from, conflicting beliefs and attitudes.

It seems that life, in order to maintain itself, must revolt every so often against man's ceaseless attempts to master its irrational forces with his mind.

Then are there no rules at all, Lord?” Moneo's voice conveyed a faint hint of hysteria.Leto smiled to ease the man's tensions. “Perhaps one. Short–term decisions tend to fail in the long–term.

If my brain can ttell the difference between noise and signal, my heart cannot.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

It takes a huge amount of culture to normalize "crazy", and of course that's its main focus

Falling in love with ideas is a romantic act. Falling out of them is a rational adventure.