Rationalism Quotes

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

Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and social behavior. The crackpot rationalism of free-market economics merely relies on an abstract model of how people 'must' behave. - Ellen Willis

To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them. - Francis Parker Yockey

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. I plead not for the suppression of reason, but for a due recognition of that in us which sanctifies reason. - Mahatma Gandhi

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 the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture. - Arthur Erickson

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us. - Huston Smith

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics. - Francis Parker Yockey

Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown. - Francis Parker Yockey