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The teachings of Buddha are eternal, but even then Buddha did not proclaim them to be infallible. The religion of Buddha has the capacity to change according to times, a quality which no other religion can claim to have... Now what is the basis of Buddhism? If you study carefully, you will see that Buddhism is based on reason. There is an element of flexibility inherent in it, which is not found in any other religion.


B.R. Ambedkar


#buddhism #rationalism #religion #change

Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.


Michael Joseph Oakeshott


#rationalism #experience

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.


Winifred Gallagher


#consciousness #focus #rationalism #experience

An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a faith in our capacity for limitless self-improvement just as much a wide-eyed superstition as a faith in leprechauns.


Terry Eagleton


#rationalism #scientism #faith

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.


Gilles Deleuze


#freedom #inspirational #lateral-thinking #philosophy #rationalism

Church leaders raised on rationalism lead ministries where the supernatural, the Vertical, is suppressed and where God Himself is at best an observer and certainly seldom, if ever, and obvious participant in church.


James MacDonald


#leaders #leadership #rationalism #suppress #leadership

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


#essence #faculty #highest #lord #man

Love is the only rational act.


Mitch Albom


#rationalism #love

I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work of art is ineffable, that it escapes by definition all rational understanding; why are they so eager to concede without a struggle the defeat of knowledge; and where does their irrepressible need to belittle rational understanding come from, this rage to affirm the irreducibility of the work of art, or, to use a more suitable word, its transcendence.


Pierre Bourdieu


#rationalism #reductionism #transcendence #art

The ufo is nothing more than an assertion of herself by the Goddess into history, saying to science and paternalistically governed and driven organizations: You have gone far enough. We are going to turn the world upside down. Your science is going to be shown up for what it is, nothing more than a pleasant metaphor usefully extrapolated into the production of toys for healthy children. That's what science is good for. It is not some meta-theory at whose feet every point of view from astrology to acupressure to channeling need be laid to have the hand of science announce thumbs up or thumbs down.


Terence McKenna


#rationalism #science #scientism #ufo #western-culture






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