The root of liberalism, in a word, is hatred of compulsion, for liberalism has the respect for the individual and his conscience and reason which the employment of coercion necessarily destroys. The liberal has faith in the individual – faith that he can be persuaded by rational means to beliefs compatible with social good.
Harold Edmund StearnsStichwörter: reason faith liberalism liberal conscience rationality respect individual compulsion lost-generation coercion
In a society where rationality has ruled so long, the church frequently fails to see that in forsaking the weekly pursuit of the transcendent, we have given up the only ground that was uniquely ours in this world. In attempting to make the church something that can attract and add value to secular mind-sets, we have turned our backs on our one true proposition - transcendence.
James MacDonaldStichwörter: church rationality worship transcendence
Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition.
These findings add to the growing evidence that good mood, intuition, creativity, gullibility, and increased reliance on System 1 form a cluster. At the other pole, sadness, vigilance, suspicion, an analytic approach, and increased effort also go together. A happy mood loosens the control of System 2 over performance: when in a good mood, people become more intuitive and more creative but also less vigilant and more prone to logical errors.
Stichwörter: creativity rationality gullibility mood
The practice which obtains amongst the Americans of fixing the standard of their judgment in themselves alone, leads them to other habits of mind. As they perceive that they succeed in resolving without assistance all the little difficulties which their practical life presents, they readily conclude that everything in the world may be explained, and that nothing in it transcends the limits of the understanding. Thus they fall to denying what they cannot comprehend; which leaves them but little faith for whatever is extraordinary, and an almost insurmountable distaste for whatever is supernatural.
Alexis de TocquevilleStichwörter: rationality culture
[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.
AristotleStichwörter: rationality
Education levels are highly and negatively correlated to religious belief. In other words, ignorance is bliss.
Cesar NascimentoStichwörter: science belief religion atheism rationality superstition agnosticism rationalism
A bitter thing cannot be made sweet.
The taste of anything can be changed.
But poison cannot be changed into nectar.
Stichwörter: society human-nature rationality differentiation
If you want to get men to act reasonably, you must set about persuading them in a maniacal manner.
Aldous HuxleyStichwörter: politics rationality
Fisher just stood there lost in thought, without saying anything. There is always a rational explanation for everything in this world - whether it's the true one or not. Maybe it is better so. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")
Cornell WoolrichStichwörter: truth rationality explanations answer
For, from the time that the Bishop of Rome had gotten to be acknowledged for bishop universal, by pretence of succession to St. Peter, their whole hierarchy, or kingdom of darkness, may be compared not unfitly to the kingdom of fairies; that is, to the old wives' fables in England concerning ghosts and spirits, and the feats they play in the night. And if a man consider the original of this great ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily perceive that the papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof: for so did the papacy start up on a sudden out of the ruins of that heathen power.
Thomas HobbesStichwörter: belief religion atheism rationality skepticism materialism roman-empire paranormal spiritualism fairies catholic-church heathen supernaturalism
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