Rationalist Quotes
18 quotes by 16 authors
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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
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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
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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
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A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.
— Garrett Hardin
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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
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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
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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
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The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Rationalist Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 18 Rationalist Quotes as follows: