I am obsessed with trying to understand why there is such rampant denialism of science in our country. I find this exuberant irrationalism extremely disturbing. And this is particularly troubling, because I am a professional scientist.

Priyamvada Natarajan

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.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

Arthur Erickson

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

Czeslaw Milosz

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

David Almond

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

Edward McKendree Bounds

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.

Elie Metchnikoff

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

Francis Parker Yockey

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

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

Francis Parker Yockey

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

Francis Parker Yockey

Compared with members of other nations of Western civilization, the ordinary American is a rationalistic being, and there are close relations between his moralism and his rationalism. Even romanticism, transcendentalism, and mysticism tend to be, in the American culture, rational, pragmatic and optimistic.

Gunnar Myrdal

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

H. P. Lovecraft

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

Huston Smith

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

Jed Mercurio

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.

Lyman Abbott

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

Octavio Paz

I am obsessed with trying to understand why there is such rampant denialism of science in our country. I find this exuberant irrationalism extremely disturbing. And this is particularly troubling, because I am a professional scientist.

Priyamvada Natarajan

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.

Ralph Adams Cram

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

Richard Dawkins