"If you want truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between "for" and "against" is the mind's worst disease."
— Sent-ts'an

"Rationalism is the idea that we can ever understand anything about the state of being. It's a deathtrip. It always has been. . . . And if rationalism is a deathtrip, then irrationalism might very well be a lifetrip . . . at least until it proves otherwise."
— Stephen King (The Stand)

"Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it."
— Samuel Butler

"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 (Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life)

"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 in Politics and Other Essays)

"The fact is: our faith is more rational than the most elaborate paradigm of the atheistic foundationalist, more romantic than the wildest dreams of the unbelieving postmodernist. our faith is a dogma that makes you dance."
— Reggie M. Kidd (With One Voice: Discovering Christs Song in Our Worship)

"A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and that Jonah swallowed a whale; and with the progress of science they were naturally finding this more and more difficult. A school of ingenious Bible-twisters arose, to invent symbolical and literary meanings for fairy tales, in order that people who no longer believed could continue with good conscience to collect the salaries of belief."
— Upton Sinclair (Mammonart: An Essay in Economic Interpretation)

"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 (Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate)

"The Kantian imperative to have the courage to think for oneself has involved a contemptuous disregard for the resources of tradition and an infantile view of authority as inherently oppressive."
— Terry Eagleton (Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate)

"The clothes have no emperor."
— Stewart Elliott Guthrie (Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion)

"The fact is: our faith is more rational than the most elaborate paradigm of the atheistic foundationalist, more romantic than the wildest dreams of the unbelieving postmodernist. our faith is a dogma that makes you dance. "
— Reggie Kid