Quotes about Rationality

Faith is not bereft of reason. F

Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. That's some catch, that catch-22.

In a society where rationality has ruled so long, the church frequently fails to see that in forsaking the weekly pursuit of the transcendent, we have given up the only ground that was uniquely ours in this world. In attempting to make the church something that can attract and add value to secular mind-sets, we have turned our backs on our one true proposition - transcendence.

What I believe in my heart must make sense in my mind.

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other

Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.

Do not all charms fly / At the mere touch of cold philosophy?

The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.

Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.

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.