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Rationality will not save us.
I am beyond logic and rationality.
Most haystacks do not even have a needle.
There is light in the world, and it is us!
You don't have to believe everything you think.
Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.
Nature draws no line between living and nonliving.
In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.
Rationality is not one of this industry's attributes.
Sometimes emotions are more important than rationality.
In general, we’re least aware of what our minds do best.
Better our hypotheses die for our errors than ourselves.
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
Unfortunately, addicts don't respond to reason or rationality.
To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization.
The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers.
Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money.
So few of us really think. What we do is rearrange our prejudges.
European policy is always an interplay of rationality and emotion.
I’m not insane, I’m voluntarily indifferent to conventional rationality.
Sir, we must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic.
In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.
Humans were eventually irrational creatures gifted with the power of rationality.
The classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful.
Rationality is the master lifehack which distinguishes which other lifehacks to use.
We need to get some rationality on the Second Amendment. This is crazy what we allow ourselves.
To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.
Talk about rationality can get very confusing unless the things with which rationality deals are also included.
I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.
You have to be just as mistrustful of straightforward rationality in business as you do of a uniquely gut approach.
What keeps me up at night is our nation's continued and burgeoning lack of rationality in response to mass shootings.
The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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.
I have a theatrical temperament. I'm not interested in the middle road - maybe because everyone's on it. Rationality, reasonableness bewilder me.
We no longer have the pact from 1997; it was radically amended in 2005 and the Commission is applying this Stability Pact with wisdom and rationality.
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.
Philosophy ought to be able to give an account of rationality that is not wholly detached from science's account of nature, even if it is not straightforwardly reducible to it.
I think that there's a strain in journalism that believes that anyone who surrenders him- or herself to faith and to belief necessarily checks reason and rationality at the door.
We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it.
As humans, we are not so rationalist as we think we are. I think our biggest quality is indeed that we are human, truly human: if our biggest quality would be rationality, we would lose our soul.
The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems is, when you start to do that, in effect you're going to have to step off the edge of science and rationality.
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.
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.