Rationalism crashes in the tails.

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

I may be wrong and you may be right, and by an effort, we may get nearer to the truth

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

My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.

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

It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.

Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit.

All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.

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

Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.

We're living in interesting times, where people seem to be able to say things which are contrary to what you would call rationalism.

Christianity is not rationalism, but faith in God's revelation. A conspicuous, all-important item in that revelation is the resurrection of the body.

Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.

The Greek conception of a life in harmony with nature found its most complete development in the rationalism of the Renaissance and of the centuries that followed it.

As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.

Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something important. But by the early '60s, it had become petit-bourgeois; it was too intellectual and romantic, and had ground to a halt. It had become respectable.

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