Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What Facebook stands for in the world is giving people a voice and spreading ideas and rationalism. — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
Wisdom lies in thinking. The spear-head of thinking is rationalism. — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Copy Share Image
“Education levels are highly and negatively correlated to religious belief. In other words, ignorance is bliss.” — Cesar Nascimento Copy Share Image
Rationalism, freedom and discipline are the three main teachers in my life. — Swaroop Copy Share Image
Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us. — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“Doing worse with more knowledge means you are doing something very wrong.” — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Politics deals with a common-sense approach to the imponderables of history, that I think are obscured by a certain kind of rationalism. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
We're living in interesting times, where people seem to be able to say things which are contrary to what you would call… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit. Of course you can… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
In our modern world we have seen inaugurated the reign of a dull bourgeois rationalism, which finds some inadequate reason for all… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
In philosophical terms, the opposite of rationalism is not irrationalism but empiricism, that is, a willingness to form beliefs on the basis… — John Quiggin Copy Share Image
We've learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression. Freud rediscovered the… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The faith engaged with Platonism in the ancient world, with Aristotle in the medieval world, with nominalism in the Reformation era, and… — Robert E. Webber Copy Share Image
Dostoevsky believed that the gods of rationalism and materialist utilitarianism had joined in conspiracy against all other ethical systems. ... The accumulation… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
“Without the human my friend, truth has no value whatsoever. So, do not be blinded by the false glory of truth, but… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Because of the confusion surrounding the term "agnosticism," it would seem better to use the very similar term "rationalism" in its place… — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
“Mia shrugged. “You doom yourselves, Susannah. You seem positively bent on it, and the root is always the same: your faith fails… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“We, that is, the traditionalists like myself, use the term ‘‘modernism’’ not in a vague way as characterizing just things that happen… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“Two ideas are opposed — not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men before they were formulated… — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
“It is in these very items of knowledge which go beyond the world of senses, where experience can neither guide nor correct… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
You all know that certain things are necessary to make a religion. First of all, there is the book. The power of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The term "rational" and its variants (rationality, rationalism) are used in a lot of contexts in economic debate, both positively and negatively,… — John Quiggin Copy Share Image
Unlike the rationalism of the French Revolution, true liberalism has no quarrel with religion, and I can only deplore the militant and… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“The inconsistencies that haunt our relationships with animals also result from the quirks of human cognition. We like to think of ourselves… — Hal Herzog Copy Share Image
“Notwithstanding the fact that infidels in all ages have battled for the rights of man, and have at all times been the… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory. — Savielly Tartakower Copy Share Image
“He was a convinced but hardworked rationalist, always hard at it re-convincing himself of his convictions.” — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
