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[I am a humble adherent of]...Enlightenment Rationalist Fundamentalism. -- Ernest Gellner
The Rationalist case needs no straining of evidence and always gains by the severest self-criticism. -- Joseph McCabe
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 never get a square meal of experience. -- Michael Joseph Oakeshott
I shall die ... as I have lived, rationalist, socialist, pacifist, and humanitarian. -- Henry Stephens Salt
A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future. -- Garrett Hardin
The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
True shamans live in a world that is alive with what is to rationalist sight unseen, a world pulsing with intelligence. -- Paula Gunn Allen
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
I grew up in a very rationalist household. My father, in particular, came from that mid-century tradition of thinking science will ultimately explain everything. -- Andrew Solomon
There are all too many who, on account of their notorious ineptitude, thrive better in a rationalist system than in freedom. Freedom is one of those difficult things. -- Carl Jung
Any irrational fears?no, i'm quite a rationalist. i'm not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities to worry about illogical things. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
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 credulous- poets and honeymooners. -- Mary McCarthy
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 outcome, you have zero knowledge. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
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 fairly passionate defender of it. -- John Rhys-Davies
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, Communist-infiltrated from top to bottom. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
A discursive student is almost certain to fall into bad company. Ten minutes with a French novel or a German rationalist have sent a reader away with a fever for life. -- Robert Aris Willmott

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