Words matter. These are the best Rationality Quotes from famous people such as Kemi Badenoch, Bruno Latour, A. R. Ammons, Friedrich Nietzsche, Dick Wolf, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The truth is that our freedoms are being subtly eroded in an era where emotion and sentiment are prized above reason and rationality.
The only shibboleth the West has is science. It is the premise of modernity and it defines itself as a rationality capable of, indeed requiring separation from politics, religion and really, society. Modernisation is to work towards this.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.
If you’re going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike.
What keeps me up at night is our nation’s continued and burgeoning lack of rationality in response to mass shootings.
Unfortunately, addicts don’t respond to reason or rationality.
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning into princes, whether that has a sort of insidious affect on rationality, I’m not sure. Perhaps it’s something for research.
I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.
I don’t know if you realize this, but anger is anger. It has no mind. It has no rationality. It’s mad, and it just wants to destroy.
We need sobriety, rationality, and civility in the discussions on the regulation of financial institutions so that the banks can return in a robust manner to their central role in funding the economy.
If we are to assess the rationality of government expenditures to protect the lives of Americans through massive domestic surveillance, we need to compare this program to others aimed at saving American lives.
Faith is not a rational thing, and yet to understand the universe, rationality alone will not give it to us. Our understanding of the universe must transcend the rational.
You have to be just as mistrustful of straightforward rationality in business as you do of a uniquely gut approach.
By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There’s no specific line, as you know.
To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization.
In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.
The classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful.
Non-fiction is a big responsibility. Rationality. Facts. The urgent need to reflect some small aspect of reality. But fiction is a private autism, a self-referential world in which the writer is omnipotent. Gravity, taxes, and death are mere options, subject to the writer’s fancy.
The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon.
We need to get some rationality on the Second Amendment. This is crazy what we allow ourselves.
When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn’t about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.
I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.
Sometimes emotions are more important than rationality.
