I'm a rationalist. And I can see no evidence for a benevolent and interventionist creator. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I am a humble adherent of...Enlightenment Rationalist Fundamentalism. — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
“And nothing . . . disquiets a rationalist more than a forest.” — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
I'm a rationalist and a skeptic, someone who safely separates faith from reason. — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“I am no Patriot for I try to breathe in with the steadfast belief that my country is the Earth and my… — K. Hari Kumar Copy Share Image
The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“The romantic seeks only to get his head into the heavens. The rationalist seeks to get the heavens into his head –… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very rationalist household. My father, in particular, came from that mid-century tradition of thinking science will ultimately… — Andrew Solomon 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
“(5) The training establishment may try to ignore short bouts of empirical experience to preserve its ‘rationalist’ authority.” — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon Copy Share Image
A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future. — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
Part of the rationalist ethos is binding yourself emotionally to an absolutely lawful reductionistic universe - a universe containing no ontologically basic… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
A rationalist, as I use the word, is a man who attempts to reach decisions by argument and perhaps, in certain cases,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The genuine rationalist does not think that he or anyone else is in possession of the truth; nor does he think that… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I'm a member of no party. I have no ideology. I'm a rationalist. I do what I can in the international struggle… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Mix the Protestant impulse to find the meaning and purpose in everything with the Enlightenment’s empiricism, and you get our American mania… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
As humans, we are not so rationalist as we think we are. I think our biggest quality is indeed that we are… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
Ideas are 10 a penny. It's the execution that's the hard thing to do. House is standing up against a tide of… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
“Some of them are blinding glimpses of the obvious (BGOs), several overlap, and I make no claims of discovery. The fundamental proposition… — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon Copy Share Image
You're either a rationalist, or you're not. And the good news is a recent poll found 20% of adults under 30 say… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Religion is still parasitic in the interstices of our knowledge which have not yet been filled. Like bed-bugs in the cracks of… — John B. S. Haldane 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
“They [progressives] are men and women who tend to believe that the human being is perfectible and social progress predictable, and that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“{ McCabe on the influential scientist Luther Burbank } His magnificent work, which added an incalculable sum to the wealth of America… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
Even those who identify themselves as libertarians follow an overtly anti-rationalist philosophy, as even a brief acquaintance with the work of Friedrich… — Philip E. Agre Copy Share Image
For those who do not make the transition to a matured, more spiritual self-will reason will indeed be no more than rationalization.… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“I am a rationalist, and I don't believe in genies, or sudden personality changes. I wanted David's anger to vanish only after… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
As Obama prepares to begin the last year of his presidency, he stands in an unusual position on the national stage: He… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
The Rationalist case needs no straining of evidence and always gains by the severest self-criticism. — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
I count myself a a rationalist and a skeptic with a very conscious awareness of my indebtedness to Western Christian civilization, and… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
There are all too many who, on account of their notorious ineptitude, thrive better in a rationalist system than in freedom. Freedom… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“There is no more terrifying experience for a Christian than to discover he has suddenly become a rationalist.” — Halldór Kiljan Laxness Copy Share Image
“If I have to take police protection in my own country from my own people, then there is something wrong with me,… — Narendra Dabholkar Copy Share Image
A rationalist is simply someone for whom it is more important to learn than to be proved right; someone who is willing… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
The true Enlightenment thinker, the true rationalist, never wants to talk anyone into anything. No, he does not even want to convince;… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
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