Brainy-quotes Quote by Abhijit Naskar

Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“The philosophy of rationalism has misunderstood the nature of man, the nature of the social world, and the nature of reason itself. It does…

— Hans J. Morgenthau

“Rationalism is false not because it seeks to express reality in rational mode, so far as this possible, but because it seeks to embrace…

— osman bakar

Rationalism is an attitude of readiness to listen to contrary arguments and to learn from experience... of admitting that "I may be wrong and…

— Karl Popper

“A true rationalist ought to be effective in the real world.”

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

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

— Paul Feyerabend

“Baptize yourself with the flow of rational thinking and the world is bound to become rational.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“There comes a time when one must be strong with rationalists, for they can reduce anything whatever to dust, if they happen not to…

— Robertson Davies

Rationalism is the idea that we can ever understand anything about the state of being. It's a deathtrip. It always has been. . .…

— Stephen King

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the…

— Lyman Abbott

A rationalist is simply someone for whom it is more important to learn than to be proved right; someone who is willing to learn…

— Karl Popper

A rationalist, as I use the word, is a man who attempts to reach decisions by argument and perhaps, in certain cases, by compromise,…

— Anonymous