In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.
Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth.
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.
Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit.
Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.