Futility Quote by Albert Camus

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and…

— Albert Camus

It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the unreasonableness of…

— Albert Camus

The various systems of doctrine that have held dominion over man have been demonstrated to be true beyond all question by rationalists of such…

— Wilfred Trotter

Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.

— Sol LeWitt

“There are no rationalists. We all believe fairy-tales, and live in them.”

— G.K. Chesterton

You're either a rationalist, or you're not. And the good news is a recent poll found 20% of adults under 30 say they are…

— Bill Maher

“One of chief pieces of advice I give to aspiring rationalists is "Don't try to be clever." And, "Listen to those quiet, nagging doubts."…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

“The very rationalists who jeer at the trial by combat, in the old feudal ordeal, do in fact accept a trial by combat as…

— G.K. Chesterton

Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Just as eunuchs will never know aesthetics as applied to the selection of beautiful women, so neither will pure rationalists ever know ethics, nor…

— Miguel

“What we want to believe and what is true are, I think, more closely related than the Rationalists would sometimes have us believe.”

— Clive Barker

“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