Wisdom lies in thinking. The spear-head of thinking is rationalism. — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Copy Share Image
Rationalism, freedom and discipline are the three main teachers in my life. — Swaroop Copy Share Image
Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought. — Alfred North Whitehead 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
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
“Education levels are highly and negatively correlated to religious belief. In other words, ignorance is bliss.” — Cesar Nascimento Copy Share Image
“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… — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
“Reason quite properly rejects contradiction, but rationalism abhors mystery, which every heresy attempts in its own way to resolve.” — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. So you never shall be at a loss in… — James Burgh Copy Share Image
“steam-tactics saga illustrates that (4) Rationalism, unlike empiricism, tends to assume an accretion of vested interests.” — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon 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 the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part,… — Ralph Adams Cram 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
“The cold rationalism simply covers for raw, wounded emotion. The more driven people are by the mind, the more they feel and… — Dalit Orbach 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
“If you take an objection in the ‘relative’, it is intellectual rationalism. ‘We’ don’t have intellectual rationalism. ‘We’ are abuddha (do not… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
It is amusing to hear the modern Christian telling you how mild and rationalistic Christianity really is and ignoring the fact that… — Bertrand Russell 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
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
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
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
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
“For man to enter history as the rational animal, it was necessary for him to be convinced that the objects of his… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
To later Romans Ennius was the personification of the spirit of early Rome; by them he was called "The Father of Roman… — Quintus Ennius Copy Share Image
“Without the withering criticism by nominalism, medieval Christian philosophy and theology would not have relinquished their claim to the role of knowledge… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“...We find that the more a cultivated reason applies itself with deliberate purpose to the enjoyment of life and happiness, so much… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Following the ascendancy of the conservative Sunni Caliph al-Mutawakkil, whom Syed Ameer Ali describes as a 'cruel drunken sot in league with… — Pervez Hoodbhoy Copy Share Image
“Religion knew the truth of metaphor and symbol for almost all of history until the past few hundred years, and especially until… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“[Obituary of atheist philosopher Richard Robinson] An Atheist's Values is one of the best short accounts of liberalism (a term Robinson accepted)… — Nicolas Walter Copy Share Image
Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory. — Savielly Tartakower Copy Share Image