To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Very bad things follow when we kid ourselves that we're naturally rational, rather than the more humbling truth: naturally emotional.
In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.
The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.
Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact.
Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.
Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth.
Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.