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Definition of Rationalism
Rationalism

The doctrine or system of those who deduce their religious opinions from reason or the understanding, as distinct from, or opposed to, revelation.

The system that makes rational power the ultimate test of truth; -- opposed to sensualism, or sensationalism, and empiricism.

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Rationalism Quotations

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

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

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 A. Cram

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

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

Rationalism Translations

rationalism in French is rationalisme
rationalism in German is Rationalismus
rationalism in Spanish is racionalismo


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