Rationality Quotes

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.

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

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.

Rationality is not one of this industry's attributes.

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.

In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.

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.

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.

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.