A Quote by Avram Noam Chomsky on rationality and chomsky
[...] many scientists, not too long ago, took an active part in the lively working class culture of the day, seeking to compensate for the class character of the cultural institutions through programs...
View ArticleA Quote by Bertrand Arthur William Russell on humanity, sin, wickedness,...
No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin; he does not say, 'You are a wicked motorcar, and I...
View ArticleA Quote by Robert Nozick on philosophy, argument, and rationality
The terminology of philosophical art is coercive: arguments are powerful and best when they are knockdown, arguments force you to a conclusion, if you believe the premises you have to or must believe...
View ArticleA Quote by Lin Yutang on superiority, heart, rationality, perfection,...
I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of the man without weaknesses. He is not to be trusted. He is apt to be always sober and he cannot make a...
View ArticleA Quote by Earon on religion, spirituality, spiritual, faith, rational,...
Spirituality resides in the unconscious mind, or heart. Rationality resides in the conscious mind, or intellect. Religion is an attempt to join the two powerful forces and is therefore fraught with...
View ArticleA Quote by Kenneth Smith on philiosophy, environment, rationality, humanity,...
No one can look either our planet or our societies in the face and imagine humans are in any respect as rational as they have been mass-bamboozled into believing that they are. All the abstractions in...
View ArticleA Quote by Kenneth Smith on philosophy, culture, religion, spirituality,...
Bear in mind that everything that traditionally passed as "religion" would modernly be interpreted as a form of sadism or masochism, i.e. humans deliberately spoiling their own and others' this-worldly...
View ArticleA Quote by Kenneth Smith on philosophy, values, differences, oppositions,...
Values by their very nature tend to seed differences and oppositions, i.e. to make it possible for us to detect and appreciate the various perspectives from which issues may be seen; even though we (by...
View ArticleA Quote by Earon on ideology, reason, rationality, ideas, religion, politics,...
Ideology is the elevation of ideas beyond reason. Source: Earon's writings Contributed by: Earon read more
View ArticleA Quote by Kenneth Smith on philosophy, intellectualism, passion,...
From its abstractionist posture, intellectualism typically conveys the impression that it is chiefly or only from passion that rationality can suffer; the folk-wisdom among rationalists is that emotion...
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