Rationalism Quotes

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Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece… — Mahatma Gandhi
Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable. — Francis Parker Yockey
Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought. — Alfred North Whitehead
Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture. — Arthur Erickson
I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus you don't have… — Isaac Asimov
Rationalism is the idea that we can ever understand anything about the state of being. It's a deathtrip. It always has been. . . .… — Stephen King
and while faith based on theological reasoning is today universally engaged in a bitter struggle with doubt and resistance from the prevailing brand of rationalism,… — Robert Musil
The central problem of our age is not liberalism or modernism, nor the old Roman Catholicism or the new Roman Catholicism, nor the threat of… — Francis Schaeffer
It is for Muslim scholars to study the whole history of Islamic science completely and not only the chapters and periods which influenced Western science.… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations. — Susan Jacoby
Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit. — Richard Dawkins
My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two. — David Almond
Rationalism, freedom and discipline are the three main teachers in my life. — Swaroop
A rationalism of serving any living being with a consistent ethics and morality of an unquestionable nature in any sphere of activity is only PROFESSIONALISM. — Anuj Somany
If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decidedto set it up here on earth, thatmost terrible of all goals entered human… — Nadine Gordimer

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