Rationalism Quotes
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Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit.
— Richard Dawkins
spirit of capitalism is best understood as part of the development of rationalism as a whole,
— Max Weber
Twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Any opposition not based on rationalism or science or experience will one day or other, reveal the fraud, selfishness, lies and conspiracies.
— Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
Science is but one form of rationalism, while religion is the most common form of superstition.
— Richard Dawkins
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
— Immanuel Kant
Careful. When you dabble too much with reason life becomes nothing but a process of dying.
— Lucas Mascotto-Carbone
The clothes have no emperor.
— Stewart Elliott Guthrie
Love is the only rational act.
— Mitch Albom
Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.
— Alfred North Whitehead
A true rationalist ought to be effective in the real world.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.
— Lyman Abbott
Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.
— Huston Smith
To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.
— Francis Parker Yockey
Rationalism crashes in the tails.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
— Gilles Deleuze
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[ ... ] rationalism is a form of intellectual bigotry which, in thinking about reality, tries to take it into account as little as possible.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
He was a convinced but hardworked rationalist, always hard at it re-convincing himself of his convictions.
— Elizabeth Goudge
How can anyone trust scientists? If new evidence comes along, they change their minds.
— Terry Pratchett
It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.
— Octavio Paz
Doing worse with more knowledge means you are doing something very wrong.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
— H.P. Lovecraft
The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them.
— Francis Parker Yockey
If the three brothers all ride horses, there are six animals and eighteen legs involved: that is true rationalism, and fairyland is full of it.
— G.K. Chesterton
What Facebook stands for in the world is giving people a voice and spreading ideas and rationalism.
— Mark Zuckerberg
It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.
— Czeslaw Milosz
My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.
— David Almond
Of course, I rationalize the fear. I realize it's not real, that my house isn't burning down, that the deer aren't going to kill me.
— Shannon Celebi
Rationalism ... is a secularized form of the belief in the power of the word of God.
— Paul Feyerabend
This is why the conflict between rationalism and irrationalism has become the most important intellectual, and perhaps even moral, issue of our time.
— Karl R. Popper
Christianity is not rationalism, but faith in God's revelation. A conspicuous, all-important item in that revelation is the resurrection of the body.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory.
— Savielly Tartakower
Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown.
— Francis Parker Yockey
Can reason be an idol? Certainly. The philosophy of rationalism puts human reason in the place of God as the source and standard of all truth.
— Nancy Pearcey
Berkouwer is to be commended for his careful avoidance of "the polarities of a mindless fideism and a faithless rationalism.
— Bruce A. Demarest
Rationalism doesn't require "belief," only observation. The real, measurable world doesn't care what you believe.
— Joe Haldeman
Wisdom lies in thinking. The spear-head of thinking is rationalism
— Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
Education levels are highly and negatively correlated to religious belief. In other words, ignorance is bliss.
— Cesar Nascimento
Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.
— Emile M. Cioran