Rationalism Quotes
35 quotes by 29 authors
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War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism about intended results, and blindness…
— Joseph Sobran
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As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in the…
— Arthur Koestler
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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals…
— Nadine Gordimer
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Skeptics, who flatly deny the existence of any unexplained phenomenon in the name of 'rationalism,' are among the primary contributors to the rejection of science…
— Jacques Vallee
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Notwithstanding their attacks on the basic conception of rationalism, on synthetic a priori judgments, that is, material propositions that cannot be contradicted by any experience,…
— Max Horkheimer
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Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the [Book of Mormon] to expose and combat the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.
— Huston Smith
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This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a major role in…
— Susan Jacoby
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It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.
— Czeslaw Milosz
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In philosophical terms, the opposite of rationalism is not irrationalism but empiricism, that is, a willingness to form beliefs on the basis of experience rather…
— John Quiggin
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The term "rational" and its variants (rationality, rationalism) are used in a lot of contexts in economic debate, both positively and negatively, but nearly always…
— John Quiggin
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Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown
— Francis Parker Yockey
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Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.
— Francis Parker Yockey
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The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.
— Lyman Abbott
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To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them
— Francis Parker Yockey
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As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new…
— Ralph Adams Cram
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Rationalism belongs to the cool observer. But because of the stupidity of the average person, they follow not reason, but faith. This naïve faith, requires…
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory.
— Savielly Tartakower
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You all know that certain things are necessary to make a religion. First of all, there is the book. The power of the book is…
— Swami Vivekananda
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