The outcome of a non-constant-sum game may be dictated by the individual rationality of the respective players without satisfying a criterion of collective rationality.
If rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans!
By elevating the dictum of the market to the role of the sole criterion of rationality and efficiency, economics denies even all "respectability" to the distinction between essential and non-essential consumption, between productive and unproductive labor, between actual and potential surplus.
Technological rationality reveals its political character as it becomes the great vehicle of better domination, creating a truely totalitarian universe in which society and nature, mind and body are kept in a state of permanent mobilization for the defense of this universe.
I ask the fundamental question of rationality: Why do you believe what you believe? What do you think you know and how do you think you know it?
This is everything to me. If I don't have this, I don't know what else I'll be doing. I personally have found where I belong. You can cut back to photos of me holding, uh, paper championships. That was truly my dream. This is what I was born to do. As far as walking away from all this to do something else, I don't. . I just don't. . . I don't see the rationality.
To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.
There is light in the world, and it is us!
If life teaches anything at all it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes that there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.
We no longer have the pact from 1997; it was radically amended in 2005 and the Commission is applying this Stability Pact with wisdom and rationality.
The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality.
In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.
The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers.
In general, we’re least aware of what our minds do best.
Who is the brave man--he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination.
Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.
Skepticism must go hand in hand with rationality. When theories are shown to be false, the correct thing to do is to move on.
Traditions are neither good nor bad, they simply are. . . Rationality is not an arbiter of traditions, it is itself a tradition or an aspect of a tradition.
Rationality will not save us.
No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.