All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.
In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we're actually unhappy. Emotion is good; passion is good. Being into what we're into, provided that it's a healthy pursuit, it's a good thing.
If we truly value humanity, life, and all that it represents in its highest form, then we need to do all that we can to promote quality of life over the quantity of life.
Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.
The values of life are most important.
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.
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances.
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.