115 Quotes About Rationalism

A rational judge will conditionally be accused of being biased as and when it suits either party's interest.

What I am trying to say is that more than your own life has to be at stake, before a person becomes desperate enough to resort to math.

There is no imam but the mind, who guides by day and night.

Human logic may be rationally adequate, but it is also existentially deficient. Faith declares that there is more than this - not contradicting, but transcending reason.

There is more to life than both cold facts and blind faith.

Reincarnation of soul does not happen, but reincarnation, renovation and evolution of ideas do.

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

Once out of your cradle, you don't focus on the world in the abstract, perceiving things for the first time, but in synchrony with your accumulated knowledge, which enriches and helps define your experience, as well as ensuring its uniqueness.

The author compares rationalism and much of organized religion do a dictator who paves over natural springs in order to dispense water in a more organized fashion. The pushback of the world hungry for wonder may be compared to the break out of those springs from their constraints. Not everything they produce is healthy, but the overreaction of eliminating them is worse.