A Quote by Sigmund Freud
Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.
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The common prejudice against philosophy is the result of the incapacity of the multitude to deal with the highest problems.
When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one, then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and cancelling them out, one against the other, I take the course indicated by what remains.
It is fairly clear that many of the arguments against proposition testing are really arguments against propositions themselves.
Arguments do not erase prejudice any more than arguments erase scars, whether psychological or physical.
Be certain of this: that the highest aim of creation and its most important result are belief in God. The most exalted rank in humanity and its highest degree are the knowledge of God contained within belief in God.
People can make arguments from the Bible if they want to. But I want them to see that they should also give arguments that all reasonable citizens might agree to.
One of the essential and most valid objections against the act of faith is that it is irrational, inasmuch as it offends against the syllogistic rule that the conclusion of an argument shall contain nothing more than the premises.
Marie Curie is my hero. Few people have accomplished something so rare - changing science. And as hard as that is, she had to do it against the tide of the culture at the time - the prejudice against her as a foreigner, because she was born in Poland and worked in France. And the prejudice against her as a woman.
Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.
The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life.
It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you.
There is no racial or religious prejudice among people in the theater. The only prejudice is against bad actors, especially successful ones.
I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But what is happening today, in North America, is not rational use but irrational massacre. Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain.
I am a reasonable and sane functionalist tempered by irrational frivolity.
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