“Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular… — William James Copy Share Image
“The great rationalist Descartes said, “I think, therefore I am.” The religious mystic the Buddha said, “I think, therefore I am not.”… — Thomas Stark Copy Share Image
Can reason be an idol? Certainly. The philosophy of rationalism puts human reason in the place of God as the source and… — Nancy Pearcey 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
“The recasting of the Origin Myth as a story about the perils of disobedience precipitated a kind of decoupling of scripture from… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding their attacks on the basic conception of rationalism, on synthetic a priori judgments, that is, material propositions that cannot be contradicted… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Skeptics, who flatly deny the existence of any unexplained phenomenon in the name of 'rationalism,' are among the primary contributors to the… — Jacques Vallee Copy Share Image
Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the [Book of Mormon] to expose… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know that they are dogmas.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Careful. When you dabble too much with reason life becomes nothing but a process of dying.” — Lucas Mascotto-Carbone Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The teachings of Buddha are eternal, but even then Buddha did not proclaim them to be infallible. The religion of Buddha has… — Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar 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
Before the scientific rationalism took hold of our minds and before we became succumbed to a materialistic worldview, the Western philosophy was… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
“Our time prides itself on having finally achieved the freedom from censorship for which libertarians in all ages have struggled...The credit for… — Joseph Weizenbaum 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
“Lightness. Let the winds of evidence blow you about as though you are a leaf, with no direction of your own. Beware… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
The irony is that in our decades, the combination of rationalism, asceticism, and individualism (the so-called Protestant Ethic) has produced precisely the… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Beliefs are personal, but universal truths are above that. For example, the surface temperature of the sun is around 5,505 degrees Celsius… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“P.C. Hodgell said - That which can be destroyed by the truth should be . Do not flinch from experiences that might… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
