Iain McGilchrist

It is not rational to assume, without evidence, that rationality can disclose everything about the world, just because it can disclose some things. Our intuition in favour of rationality, where we are inclined to use it, is just that - an intuition. Reason is founded in intuition and ends in intuition, like a pair of massive bookends.

British Writer

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy, as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health. One aspect of this is that rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

American Mathematician

Brian Eno

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.

British Musician

Pope Benedict XVI

I don't know if the term 'liberation theology,' which can be interpreted in a very positive sense, will help us much. What's important is the common rationality to which the church offers a fundamental contribution, and which must always help in the education of conscience, both for public and for private life.

German Clergyman

Donella Meadows

I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans are animals, too, but animals with amazing powers of rationality, morality, society. We can use our strength and courage not to savage each other, but to defend our highest purposes.

American Environmentalist

Katherine Dunn

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.

American Novelist

Robert M. Pirsig

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.

American Philosopher

Lars von Trier

If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

Danish Director

Marco Bizzarri

Sometimes emotions are more important than rationality.

Italian Businessman

Friedrich Nietzsche

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

German Philosopher

Don't confuse 'rationality' with 'rationalization', which is justifying actions with logical reasons.

Common Misuse

'Rationality' often appears in formal, especially academic texts, to describe objective thinking.

Academic Tone

'Rationality' doesn't always mean something is good; sometimes it can lack emotion or compassion.

Not Always Positive

'Rationality' can refer to personal decision-making, not just in large-scale or theoretical contexts.

Individual Decisions

'Rationality' involves critical thinking, meaning not taking things at face value without questioning.

Critical Thinking

In psychology, 'rationality' may relate to one's mental health and the ability to think clearly.

Mental Health

'Rationality' is a measure of how sound or reasonable one's thoughts are perceived.

Judge Soundness

'Rationality' may fluctuate under stress; it's not a permanent state.

Susceptible to Change

'Rationality' involves both logic and the appropriateness of behavior in a societal context.

More Than Logic

 So social influence works in health care. So does tying it to notions of regret or to loss aversion. We would never think of using these tools if we thought that everyone was rational all the time. Now, just to be I am not condemning rationality. I mean, that really would be irrational.

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 then how does that shape the way that those girls get to see themselves? And if girls grow up in a world that tells them that they are designed just a bit crazier than the boys, then isn't that a little bit like telling them that they are born less capable of rationality than men,

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 It doesn't make quite as much money as body humor I'm sure -- but nevertheless, what makes us treasure you and adore you. There's also a contradiction in rationality in this country though, which is, as much as we revere the head, we are very anti-intellectual.

A theory of everything PIPE...

 broadly scientific conception of rationality but not because those principles and the methods they endorse are more accurate although I do think they're more accurate but because using those sorts of principles in public debate respects our autonomy more it's

How do we reason for a...

 I've known heights of obsessive behavior I never thought about. Which I think is just fascinating. I will tell you a little bit about irrational behavior, and I want to start by giving you some examples of visual illusion as a metaphor for rationality.

Are we in control of our...

 and this understanding of our ancestors is transmitted generation from generation in the form of stories, symbols and rituals, which are always indifferent to rationality. And so, when you study it, you realize that different people of the world

East vs west -- the...

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How science & reason...

 In game theory, this scenario is called the “Prisoner's Dilemma.” To figure out how these gingerbread men will act in their perfect rationality, we can map the outcomes of each decision.

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