Rationalists Quotes

What we want to believe and what is true are, I think, more closely related than the Rationalists would sometimes have us believe. — Clive Barker

For sheer primitive rage, commend me to a thoroughgoing humanitarian when you get him well roused. — Agatha Christie

Like all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology. — Halldor Laxness

What do I think? I think it makes no difference what I think. — Marty Rubin

The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior. — Juvenal

So we invent reasons for the unreasonable. We are rationalists of the irrational. It — Joyce Carol Oates

Kavad himself, if obliged to fight on a Jewish holy day, had been known to request his adversaries for a temporary truce. — Tom Holland

A quasi-mystical response to nature and the universe is common among scientists and rationalists. It has no connection with supernatural belief. In — Richard Dawkins

There are no rationalists. We all believe fairy-tales, and live in them. — G.K. Chesterton

Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach. — Sol LeWitt

I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day. — Joseph Barbera

Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance. — Maajid Nawaz