Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.
Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit.
I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
Very bad things follow when we kid ourselves that we're naturally rational, rather than the more humbling truth: naturally emotional.
In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.