"Liberated ratio achieved an unanticipated importance. Its free use created an atmosphere of truthfulness, light, and clarity. A fresh wind of bright intelligence cleared up prejudices, social conceits, hypocritical properties, and stifling sentimentality. Intellectual honesty in all things, including questions of faith, was the great good of liberated ratio. It has belonged ever since to the essential moral requirements of Western humanity. Contempt for the age of rationalism is a suspicious sign of a deficient desire for truthfulness. Just because intellectual honesty does not have the last word on things and rational clarity often comes at the cost of depth of reality, we are not absolved from our inner duty to make honest and clean use of ratio."
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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