Quotes Tagged With :rationality

When an economist attempts to prove that it is "irrational" to vote in national elections (because the....

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

Intellectually, what is stimulating to a young man is a problem of obvious practical importance. A young....

The Apparent is the Bridge to the Real

In recent philosophy there has been a growing awareness of the gap between the abstract principles proposed....

The saddest thing about these imagined deathbed conversions is that, even if they were real, they could....

Sexual starvation forces a heterosexual man to see beauty in every single female who he can sleep with....

The idea of original sin--of guilt with no possibility of innocence, no freedom of choice, no alternatives--inherently....

Education levels are highly and negatively correlated to religious belief. In other words, ignorance....

The most damaging cognitive bias is overconfidence (illusory superiority), making leaders use their “gut”....