Rationalists Quotes

#1. A quasi-mystical response to nature and the universe is common among scientists and rationalists. It has no connection with supernatural belief. In

Richard Dawkins

#2. Just as eunuchs will never know aesthetics as applied to the selection of beautiful women, so neither will pure rationalists ever know ethics, nor will they ever succeed in defining happiness, for happiness is a thing that is lived and felt, not a thing that is reasoned or defined.

Miguel

#3. Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. One of chief pieces of advice I give to aspiring rationalists is "Don't try to be clever." And, "Listen to those quiet, nagging doubts." If you don't know, you don't know what you don't know, you don't know how much you don't know, and you don't know how much you needed to know.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#5. The unrealistic nature of these tales (which narrowminded rationalists object to) is an important device, because it makes obvious that the fairy tales' concern is not useful information about the external world, but the inner process taking place in an individual.

Bruno Bettelheim

#6. Rationalists believe Gandhari had only two sons, Duryodhana and Dusshasana, who are the only two of the hundred to play a significant role in the epic. They were probably twins, the 'two-year' pregnancy probably meaning 'twin' pregnancy.

Devdutt Pattanaik

#7. So we invent reasons for the unreasonable. We are rationalists of the irrational. It

Joyce Carol Oates

#8. So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes
with the exception of their occupation.

Karl Kraus

#9. Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.

Sol LeWitt

#10. Like all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology.

Halldor Laxness

#11. There are no rationalists. We all believe fairy-tales, and live in them.

G.K. Chesterton

#12. Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.

Maajid Nawaz

#13. Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses.

Arthur Keith

#14. What we want to believe and what is true are, I think, more closely related than the Rationalists would sometimes have us believe.

Clive Barker

#15. Is that story really true?" he asked. "Oh, no," said Michael, airily. "It is a parable. It is a parable of you and all your rationalists. You begin by breaking up the Cross; but you end by breaking up the habitable world.

G.K. Chesterton

#16. We are approaching a time when Christians, especially, may have to declare the social contract between Enlightenment rationalists and Biblical believers - which formed the basis of the constitution written at our nation's founding - null and void.

Cal Thomas

#17. In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

Edwin Way Teale

#18. Of data than of objects, seems a natural crossover figure in today's interface of British and Japanese cultures. I see it in the eyes of the Portobello dealers, and in the eyes of the Japanese collectors:

William Gibson

#19. The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#20. A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

Duke Ellington

#21. It was like a promise that wishes could come true, that desire might lead to more than yearning.

Cornelia Funke

#22. Only those that give luck a chance, can achieve the unusual!

Dieter Ott

#23. Grandchildren are their grandparents' toys.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#24. I genuinely believe that any business can create a competitive advantage through giving outstanding customer care.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#25. I think most people, no matter what their situation, manage to find joy and comfort in their daily lives. I also think things fall apart.

Deborah Ellis

#26. My hope is that my novels reflect the reality of a world where good and evil exist, imperfect people make mistakes, but a perfect Heavenly Father offers forgiveness and second chances.

Julie Klassen

#27. You don't pass or fail at being a human, dear.

Neil Gaiman

#28. Like many another materialist, that is, he lied cleverly on the basis of insufficient knowledge, because the knowledge supplied seemed to his own particular intelligence inadmissible.
("The Wendigo")

Algernon Blackwood