Rationalists

The minority that is what I would call rationalists, that is people who don't believe in something supernatural, something that was obviously fables that were written by men before men knew what a germ or an atom was. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Note, the spiritualism of rationalists is very different. ❋ Unknown (1871)

So, yes, I would like to say to the atheists and agnostics, the people who I call rationalists, let's stop ceding the moral high ground to the people who believe in the talking snake. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Chief among the rationalists is the acting-troupe leader's wife, a sensitive but clear-minded woman who insists: This is not a play, this is real. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The principal Aristotelian concept taken over by the rationalists was the concept of substance. ❋ Lennon, Thomas M. (2007)

The rationalists are the men to whom the world is indebted for being the pioneers in the work of breaking down the impassable barrier of hatred and disdain which divided the followers of one faith from those of another. ❋ Various (N/A)

As a condition indispensable to the entertainment of faith, we have already insisted on the necessity of previously freeing the heart from the sway of the sensual appetites; and it is not without a grave reason, for therein precisely consists the secret of the solution of the great question agitated in all ages between the so-called rationalists and the supernaturalists. ❋ Isaac Samuele Reggio (N/A)

Having, as we hope, satisfactorily disposed of the objection usually put forward by the so-called rationalists, we shall now proceed to relate the modes by which Divine revelation historically came into actuality. ❋ Isaac Samuele Reggio (N/A)

The rationalists were the first to use it, or rather to abuse it, for their anti-dogmatic purposes. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Protestant religious teaching that they had also come to to be called rationalists, opposing, as has been pointed out, the findings of unaided reason to the truths held on faith as having come from God through external revelation. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

So-called rationalists who would say: "Oh, for goodness sake - it was a trick of the light, the pilot could have been drinking etc etc etc," are guilty, in my opinion, of the "leap to rationalization", a deeply narrow view which maintains that nothing exists outside the physical plane. ❋ Unknown (2008)

When he hears theological inquiry censured as tending to create doubt and confusion, he knows very well that the cause of this is not to be sought in the writings of so-called rationalists or critics who are disliked partly because they unveil the age to itself; but in the opposition of reason and feeling, of the past and the present, in the conflict between the Calvinistic tendencies of an elder generation, and the influences which even in the same family naturally affect the young. ❋ 1817-1893 (1907)

Actually, I find that self-described "rationalists" are among the least able to discern how their neurons lead them around by their nose although certainly capable of seeing that phenomenon in OTHER groups of people. ❋ Unknown (2009)

She doesn't [go] by [thee] [law] because she's a rationalist. ❋ 888LoveisLove888 (2022)