Rationalism Quotes

It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism. (Czesław Miłosz)
My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two. View quote
David Almond
Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture. View quote
Arthur Erickson
The rationalism of the creative minds was tempered by abundant fantasies, and the supreme beauty of the monuments was probably spoiled by the circumambient vanities and ugliness; in a few cases the Greeks came as close to perfection as it was possible to do, yet they were human and imperfect. View quote
George Sarton
Liberalism is Rationalism in politics. View quote
Francis Parker Yockey
To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them. View quote
Francis Parker Yockey
Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
But the truth is that my work - I was going to say my mission - is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention in faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself; it is to war against all those who submit, whether it be to Catholicism, or to rationalism, or to agnosticism; it is to make all men live the life of inquietude and passionate desire. View quote
Miguel de Unamuno
Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism. View quote
Emil Cioran
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. View quote
John Buchan
It is amusing to hear the modern Christian telling you how mild and rationalistic Christianity really is and ignoring the fact that all its mildness and rationalism is due to the teaching of men who in their own day were persecuted by all orthodox Christians. (Bertrand Russell)
Rationalism doesn't require "belief,” only observation. The real, measurable world doesn't care what you believe. View quote
Joe Haldeman
It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism. View quote
Reinhold Niebuhr
Wisdom lies in thinking. The spear-head of thinking is rationalism. View quote
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
Capitalists control the machineries. They create difficulties to the workers. Consequently rationalism, which has to lead the way for peaceful life to all, has resulted in causing poverty and worries to the people because of dominating forces. View quote
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
Any opposition not based on rationalism or science or experience will one day or other, reveal the fraud, selfishness, lies and conspiracies. View quote
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
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 empiricist posits the forms of being as constant. View quote
Max Horkheimer
Rationalism... is a secularized form of the belief in the power of the word of God. View quote
Paul Karl Feyerabend
Science is not sacrosanct. The mere fact that it exists, is admired, has results is not sufficient for making it a measure of excellence. Modern science arose from global objections against earlier views and rationalism itself, the idea that there are general rules and standards for conducting our affairs, affairs of knowledge included, arose from global objections to common sense. View quote
Paul Karl Feyerabend
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. View quote
Paul Goodman
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)
Reinhold Niebuhr's new orthodoxy is the oldtime religion put through the intellectual wringer. It is a re-examination of orthodoxy for an age dominated by such trends as rationalism, liberalism, Marxism, fascism, idealism and the idea of progress. View quote
Whittaker Chambers
First were the thick stone walls, the arches, then the domes and vaults - of the architect, searching out for wider spaces. Now it is concrete-reinforced that gives our imagination flight with its soaring spans and uncommon cantilevers. Concrete, to which architecture is integrated, through which it is able to discard the foregone conclusions of rationalism, with its monotony and repetitious solutions. A concern for beauty, a zest for fantasy, and an ever-present element of surprise bear witness that today's architecture is not a minor craft bound to straight-edge rules, but an architecture imbued with technology: light, creative and unfettered, seeking out its architectural scene. View quote
Oscar Niemeyer
Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable. View quote
Francis Parker Yockey
Between Capitalism and Socialism there is no relationship of true and false. Both are instincts, and have the same historical rank, but one of them belongs to the Past, and one to the Future. Capitalism is a product of Rationalism and Materialism, and was the ruling force of the 19th century. Socialism is the form of an age of political Imperialism, of Authority, of historical philosophy, of superpersonal political imperative. View quote
Francis Parker Yockey