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Rationalism crashes in the tails. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Liberalism is Rationalism in politics. -- 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
Rationalism doesn't require "belief," only observation. The real, measurable world doesn't care what you believe. -- Joe Haldeman
Rationalism... is a secularized form of the belief in the power of the word of God. -- Paul Feyerabend
Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us. -- Huston Smith
Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown -- Francis Parker Yockey
Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown. -- Francis Parker Yockey
To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them -- Francis Parker Yockey
To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them. -- Francis Parker Yockey
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 attitude of readiness to listen to contrary arguments and to learn from experience... of admitting that "I may be wrong and you may be right and, by an effort, we may get nearer the truth." -- Karl Popper
Rationalism is the idea that we can ever understand anything about the state of being. It's a deathtrip. It always has been. . . . And if rationalism is a deathtrip, then irrationalism might very well be a lifetrip . . . at least until it proves otherwise. -- Stephen King
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 necessary illusions and emotionally potent oversimplifications, which are provided by the myth maker to keep the ordinary person on course. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two. -- David Almond
It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism. -- Czeslaw Milosz
Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit. -- Richard Dawkins
Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society. -- Octavio Paz
Christianity is not rationalism, but faith in God's revelation. A conspicuous, all-important item in that revelation is the resurrection of the body. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
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
The Greek conception of a life in harmony with nature found its most complete development in the rationalism of the Renaissance and of the centuries that followed it. -- Elie Metchnikoff
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 philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased. -- Ralph Adams Cram
Compared with members of other nations of Western civilization, the ordinary American is a rationalistic being, and there are close relations between his moralism and his rationalism. Even romanticism, transcendentalism, and mysticism tend to be, in the American culture, rational, pragmatic and optimistic. -- Gunnar Myrdal
Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something important. But by the early '60s, it had become petit-bourgeois; it was too intellectual and romantic, and had ground to a halt. It had become respectable. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
Scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit. -- Richard Dawkins
Wisdom lies in thinking. The spear-head of thinking is rationalism -- Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
Wisdom lies in thinking. The spear-head of thinking is rationalism. -- Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism. -- Emile M. Cioran
Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory. -- Savielly Tartakower
What Facebook stands for in the world is giving people a voice and spreading ideas and rationalism. -- Mark Zuckerberg
It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
Politics deals with a common-sense approach to the imponderables of history, that I think are obscured by a certain kind of rationalism. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
[...] rationalism is a form of intellectual bigotry which, in thinking about reality, tries to take it into account as little as possible. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
Any opposition not based on rationalism or science or experience will one day or other, reveal the fraud, selfishness, lies and conspiracies. -- Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
Christianity is not rationalism, but faith in Gods revelation. A conspicuous, all-important item in that revelation is the resurrection of the body. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution. -- William James
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
Can reason be an idol? Certainly. The philosophy of rationalism puts human reason in the place of God as the source and standard of all truth. -- Nancy Pearcey
The irony is that in our decades, the combination of rationalism, asceticism, and individualism (the so-called Protestant Ethic) has produced precisely the system of boondoggling, luxury-consumption, and status. -- Paul Goodman
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 to unintended secondary results. -- Joseph Sobran
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 the resurgence of both anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism. -- Susan Jacoby
Church leaders raised on rationalism lead ministries where the supernatural, the Vertical, is suppressed and where God Himself is at best an observer and certainly seldom, if ever, and obvious participant in church. -- James MacDonald
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 to waste your time in either attacking or defending. -- Isaac Asimov
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, the empiricists posits the forms of being as constant. -- Max Horkheimer
While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim- or arrogation- of power to stifle the autonomy of others. -- Thomas Sowell
In our modern world we have seen inaugurated the reign of a dull bourgeois rationalism, which finds some inadequate reason for all things in heaven and earth and makes a god of its own infallibility. -- John Buchan

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