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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

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

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

[ ... ] 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

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

He was a convinced but hardworked rationalist, always hard at it re-convincing himself of his convictions. — Elizabeth Goudge

Good excuses rarely collect dust. We use them, and use them, and use them. — Andy Stanley

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

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture. — Arthur Erickson

Doing worse with more knowledge means you are doing something very wrong. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

What we know here is very little, but what we are ignorant of is immense. — Pierre Laplace

Logic is like the sword
those who appeal to it shall perish by it. — Samuel Butler

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

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

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

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

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