Rationalism Quotes

An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a faith in our capacity for limitless self-improvement just as much a wide-eyed superstition as a faith in leprechauns.

~ Terry Eagleton

Romanticism is the expression of man’s urge to rise above reason and common sense, just as rationalism is the expression of his urge to rise above theology and emotion.

~ Charles Yost

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

~ Samuel Butler

The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.

~ P.d. James

The Kantian imperative to have the courage to think for oneself has involved a contemptuous disregard for the resources of tradition and an infantile view of authority as inherently oppressive.

~ Terry Eagleton

The recasting of the Origin Myth as a story about the perils of disobedience precipitated a kind of decoupling of scripture from religious experience: when religious authorities began to insist on the literal truth of scripture, they were effectively promoting a kind of secular rationalism that states that one does not need to have a religious experience of any kind to live a moral life: all one has to do is declare one’s faith in scripture, in the doctrine of Jesus’ divinity and such, and accept the authority of the Holy Catholic Church as God’s representative on Earth.

~ Daniel Waterman

You can either control yourself by simple two lines of bitter truth ,OR by confusing yourself in long stories to comfort with a lie

~ Er.teji