Rationalism Quotes

I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we con...

Two ideas are opposed — not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men befor...

Let's say I have a mystical soul and a rational brain, and, like Montaigne, I am incapable of choosi...

It is a mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character becomes strong in that way. You wil...

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through th...

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. ...

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Nothing is required for this enli...

...We find that the more a cultivated reason applies itself with deliberate purpose to the enjoyment...

I have spent these last two days in concentrated introspection," said Cutie, "and the results have b...

Church leaders raised on rationalism lead ministries where the supernatural, the Vertical, is suppre...

The author compares rationalism and much of organized religion do a dictator who paves over natural ...

The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even be...

The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you hav...

I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction...

Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

The ufo is nothing more than an assertion of herself by the Goddess into history, saying to science ...

An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits ...

The Kantian imperative to have the courage to think for oneself has involved a contemptuous disregar...

How can anyone trust scientists? If new evidence comes along, they change their minds.

See the exquisite contrast of the types of mind! The pragmatist clings to facts and concreteness, ob...

Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have...