Best of Rationality Quotes
The fact that you are giving money to charity does not mean that you need not try to find out whether that charity is a fraud or not.
-C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
There is a thought that stops thought. That is the only thought that ought to be stopped.
-G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Man, n. An irrational animal whose irrationality is best demonstrated by his irrational belief in his rationality.
-L. A. Rollins, Lucifer's Lexicon
Skeptic, n. One who doubts what he does not want to believe and believes what he does not want to doubt.
-L. A. Rollins, Lucifer's Lexicon
Many of the arguments on LW remind me of this quote:
"for the obscurity of the distinctions and of the principles that they use is the reason why they talk about everything as confidently as if they knew about it, and defend everything they say about it against the most subtle and knowledgeable, without leaving any room to convince them of their mistake. In doing this they seem to me to resemble a blind person who, in order to fight without any disadvantage against a sighted person, would bring them into the depths of a very dark celar."
-Rene Descartes from the Discourse on Method
Rationalist, n. One who puts Descartes before the horse sense.
-L. A. Rollins, Lucifer's Lexicon
I cannot prove, but am prepared to affirm, that if you take care of clarity in reasoning, most good causes will take care of themselves, while some bad ones are taken care of as a matter of course.
-Anthony de Jasay
-L. A. Rollins, Lucifer's Lexicon