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
“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
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
“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
To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism about intended… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Rationalism is an attitude of readiness to listen to contrary arguments and to learn from experience... of admitting that "I may be… — Karl Popper 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
“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
Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as… — Mahatma Gandhi 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
“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
Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and social… — Ellen Willis 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
There is nothing more negative than the result of the critical study of the life of Jesus. The Jesus of Nazareth who… — Albert Schweitzer 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
“You doom yourselves, Susannah. You seem positively bent on it, and the root is always the same: your faith fails you, and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Evangelicals have like millions of rules. And it's just, uh, we have sort of an accepted, rationalism within which we frame religion.… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
“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
There are also two Christianities in the world today. There is (1) the Christianity of the New Testament, and there is (2)… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“The ufo is nothing more than an assertion of herself by the Goddess into history, saying to science and paternalistically governed and… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I was born into a working class Irish Catholic family at the brutal bottom of the Great Depression. I suppose this early… — Robert Anton Wilson 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
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
“Careful. When you dabble too much with reason life becomes nothing but a process of dying.” — Lucas Mascotto-Carbone Copy Share Image
“Reincarnation of soul does not happen, but reincarnation, renovation and evolution of ideas do.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image