Contact
Privacy
Category: rationality
Quotes of Category: rationality
TOP TAGS :maritimebrennarationalitythoughts-on-lifemovieintroductionslawyercamp

  1. Richard Matheson _ Collected Stories, Vol. 1

    It was a fairy tale, no fooling. It was unreality becoming real. This frightened her. Because people don't care for unreality becoming real. It pricks their well-fed minds, you see, with something like a hunger pang. They prefer the logical stuffiness of expectancy. It is only at certain times that they weaken, letting imagination in. That's the time to get them. {"The Disinheritors"}
    book-quoteimaginationrealityrationality

  2. Hermann Hesse _ The Journey to the East

    Faith is stronger than so-called reason.
    book-quotereasonrationalityh-h

  3. Tim Kreider _ We Learn Nothing

    You'd think that it would make them all the more credible to be free of any obvious agenda or emotional bias, motivated only by objective logic. But there's something off-putting about these hyperrational types; they're immune to any appeals to common sense or humor, the for fuck's sake defense. {...} As Kim Stanley Robinson writes, "An excess of reason is in itself a form of madness".
    book-quoterationalityrational-debate

  4. Jane Austen _ Sense and Sensibility

    Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
    book-quotediscussionreasonopposition

  5. Jane Austen _ Persuasion

    I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
    book-quotefeminismwomenself-determination

  6. Barbara Ehrenreich _ Living with a Wild God: A

    The most flattering spin I can put on this phase of paradoxes and metaphysical tangles is that I was smart enough, at age fourteen, to destroy any fledgling hypothesis I came up with. A tentative explanation, theory, or formulation would pop up in my brain only to be attacked by what amounted to a kind of logical immune system, bent on eliminating all that was weak or defective. Which is to say that my mind had become a scene of furious predation, littered with the half-eaten corpses of vast theories and brilliant syntheses.
    book-quotephilosophymetaphysicsrationality

  7. Euripides _ The Bacchae

    Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."
    book-quoteunderstandingreasonstupidity

  8. Ayn Rand _ Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

    Since knowledge, thinking, and rational action are properties of the individual, since the choice to exercise his rational faculty or not depends on the individual, man's survival requires that those who think be free of the interference of those who don't. Since men are neither omniscient nor infallible, they must be free to agree or disagree, to cooperate or to pursue their own independent course, each according to his own rational judgment. Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man's mind.A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone's orders, directives, or controls; it does not sacrifice its knowledge, its view of the truth, to anyone's opinions, threats, wishes, plans, or "welfare." Such a mind may be hampered by others, it may be silenced, proscribed, imprisoned, or destroyed; it cannot be forced; a gun is not an argument. {An example and symbol of this attitude is Galileo.}It is from the work and the inviolate integrity of such minds-from the intransigent innovators-that all of mankind's knowledge and achievements have come. {See The Fountainhead.} It is to such minds that mankind owes its survival. {See Atlas Shrugged.}
    book-quoteindividualrationality

  9. Ayn Rand _ Atlas Shrugged

    Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims. Happiness is not the satisfaction of whatever irrational wishes you might blindly attempt to indulge. Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy-a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your own destruction, not the joy of escaping from your mind, but of using your mind's fullest power, not the joy of faking reality, but of achieving values that are real, not the joy of a drunkard, but of a producer. Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions.
    book-quotevaluesrationality

  10. Robert M. Pirsig _ Zen and the Art of Motorcycle

    There is no perfectly shaped part of the motorcycle and never will be, but when you come as close as these instruments take you, remarkable things happen, and you go flying across the countryside under a power that would be called magic if it were not so completely rational in every way.
    book-quoteperfectionphilosophymotorcycles

  11. Robert M. Pirsig _ Zen and the Art of Motorcycle

    Not everyone understands what a completely rational process this is, this maintenance of a motorcycle. They think it's some kind of "knack" or some kind of "affinity for machines" in operation. They are right, but the knack is almost purely a process of reason, and most of the troubles are caused by what old time radio men called a "short between the earphones," failures to use the head properly. A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself.
    book-quotephilosophyreasonmotorcycle

  12. Robert M. Pirsig _ Zen and the Art of Motorcycle

    If Quality were dropped, only rationality would remain unchanged.
    book-quoterationality
Categories