Rationalist Quotes

18 quotes by 16 authors

I deliberately disregarded the right angle and rationalist architecture designed with ruler and square to boldly enter the world of curves and straight lines offered… — Oscar Niemeyer
The true Enlightenment thinker, the true rationalist, never wants to talk anyone into anything. No, he does not even want to convince; all the time… — Karl Popper
Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future. — Garrett Hardin
Even those who identify themselves as libertarians follow an overtly anti-rationalist philosophy, as even a brief acquaintance with the work of Friedrich Hayek should make… — Philip E. Agre
Very often, I confess, the teller of dreams bores me. His dream could perhaps interest me if it were frankly worked on. But to hear… — Gaston Bachelard
Since the so-called Age of Enlightenment, our shaky anthropocentric, rationalist egos have been brainwashed to forget what 'primitive' cultures once understood: Animals can be manifestations… — Zeena Schreck
The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
For those who do not make the transition to a matured, more spiritual self-will reason will indeed be no more than rationalization. Here is a… — Kenny Smith
I am certainly a romantic, but with a good scientific and rationalist half: thus, from this conflict I sometimes come out victorious, but exhausted. — Henri
The rationalist mind has always had its doubts about Venice. The watery city receives a dry inspection, as though it were a myth for the… — Mary McCarthy
A relatively small and eternally quarrelsome country in Western Europe, fountainhead of rationalist political manias, militarily impotent, historically inglorious during the past century, democratically bankrupt,… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact is that I feel no… — Isaac Asimov
Houdini, the magician who debunked magic, could not bear to see the great rationalist [Arthur Conan] Doyle enchanted by ghosts and frauds. And so he… — John Hodgman
Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any… — Eliezer Yudkowsky
A rationalist, as I use the word, is a man who attempts to reach decisions by argument and perhaps, in certain cases, by compromise, rather… — Karl Popper
A rationalist is simply someone for whom it is more important to learn than to be proved right; someone who is willing to learn from… — Karl Popper
I count myself a a rationalist and a skeptic with a very conscious awareness of my indebtedness to Western Christian civilization, and I am a… — John Rhys-Davies

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