Quotes about Rationality
Do not all charms fly / At the mere touch of cold philosophy?
- John Keats
The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.
- Thomas Jefferson
Thinking rationally is often different from "positive thinking," in that it is a realistic assessment of the situation, with a view towards rectifying the problem if possible.
- Albert Ellis
Pluralism lets things really exist in the each-form or distributively. Monism thinks that the all-form or collective-unit form is the only form that is rational.
- William James
A good argument must obey the rules of logic; express true premises; and have premises more plausible than their opposites.
- William Lane Craig
It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
- GK Chesterton
How can a reason which hates God be called sound?
- Martin Luther
Christianity believes that God has created an external world that is really there; and because He is a reasonable God, one can expect to be able to find the order of the universe by reason.
- Francis Schaeffer
Good judgment, common sense, and reason all fly out the window when emotions kick down your door.
- John Wooden