You cannot 'rationalize' what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called 'truthization.' There is no way to obtain more truth for a proposition by bribery, flattery, or the most passionate argument - you can make more people believe the proposition, but you cannot make it more true.

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

Money will not give you happiness; it's part of the key.

I'm just here to say, 'Just be a good person, and really respect others.'

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.

At the heart of both democracy and capitalism is a simple assumption that, across the board, people make free and relatively rational decisions: that we are, to borrow a medical term, Gillick Competent.

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

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.

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

Stand and fight for those who are not weak but have yet to discover the strength that the evil of this world has done its best to conceal.

People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.

Legal behavior is not incompatible with rational, self-interested behavior.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

As much time and effort, emotion, anger, love, joy that you put into another human being, you're not guaranteed to receive that back. And that's OK. That's alright.

Logic will never change emotion or perception.

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

I find humanism to be the most rational and positive philosophy for life. And it's not a new thing at all - the history of humanist thought is deep and inspiring.

Logical activity is not the whole of intelligence. One can be intelligent without being particularly logical.

One thing you get from me is peace, love, and positivity.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Women are as precious as they are stronger than any man that I have met.

Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.