Rationalism Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism. — Emile M. Cioran
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
Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us. — Huston Smith
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
It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism. — Czeslaw Milosz
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
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
Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown — Francis Parker Yockey
Liberalism is Rationalism in politics. — Francis Parker Yockey
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
To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them — Francis Parker Yockey
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
Rationalism belongs to the cool observer. But because of the stupidity of the average person, they follow not reason, but faith. This naÃ¯ve faith, requires… — Reinhold Niebuhr
Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory. — Savielly Tartakower
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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