Rationalism Quotes

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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Wisdom lies in thinking. The spear-head of thinking is rationalism.

Any opposition not based on rationalism or science or experience will one day or other, reveal the fraud, selfishness, lies and conspiracies.

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

I may be wrong and you may be right, and by an effort, we may get nearer to the truth

Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.

Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.

Rationalism doesn't require "belief," only observation. The real, measurable world doesn't care what you believe.

Rationalism... is a secularized form of the belief in the power of the word of God.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them

Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.

It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.

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.

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

What Facebook stands for in the world is giving people a voice and spreading ideas and rationalism.

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.

It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.

The Kantian imperative to have the courage to think for oneself has involved a contemptuous disregard for the resources of tradition and an infantile view of authority as inherently oppressive.

Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory.

While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim- or arrogation- of power to stifle the autonomy of others.

Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown

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.

Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.

Rationalism crashes in the tails.

True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.

The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.

In our modern world we have seen inaugurated the reign of a dull bourgeois rationalism, which finds some inadequate reason for all things in heaven and earth and makes a god of its own infallibility.

My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.

Politics deals with a common-sense approach to the imponderables of history, that I think are obscured by a certain kind of rationalism.

Christianity is not rationalism, but faith in Gods revelation. A conspicuous, all-important item in that revelation is the resurrection of the body.

Education levels are highly and negatively correlated to religious belief. In other words, ignorance is bliss.

Let's say I have a mystical soul and a rational brain, and, like Montaigne, I am incapable of choosing between them. I don't know if I believe in God, but I am often tempted to believe.

For Christian writers, religious faith is not a rebellion against reason, but a revolt against the imprisonment of humanity within the cold walls of a rationalist dogmatism.

Human logic may be rationally adequate, but it is also existentially deficient. Faith declares that there is more than this - not contradicting, but transcending reason.

The clothes have no emperor.

When you don’t have explanation for a certain phenomenon, as a real human, you should suspend judgement, instead of concocting supernatural explanations out of ignorance and primordial fanaticism.

It is better to be foolish than a dilettante.

How can anyone trust scientists? If new evidence comes along, they change their minds.

Psychics, astrology, tarot cards - all these mystical non-sense are signs of a weak mind. Whenever such garbage starts grabbing hold of you, seek the help of a physician or therapist.

Rationality and common sense never goes out of fashion.

There were no scruples, no feelings of respect or loyal affection that would stop us from making up our minds by the pure light of reason - and of our own desires.

Careful. When you dabble too much with reason life becomes nothing but a process of dying.

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.

Romanticism is the expression of man’s urge to rise above reason and common sense, just as rationalism is the expression of his urge to rise above theology and emotion.

Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

You can either control yourself by simple two lines of bitter truth, OR by confusing yourself in long stories to comfort with a lie