“What an irony that modern man, engaged as he is in the pursuit of knowledge, allows himself to be stymied by the… — B.S. Murthy Copy Share Image
“But it is the main question at the moment: which side one’s on—obscurantism or Order.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Real obscurantism is not to hinder the spread of what is true, clear, and useful, but to bring into vogue what is… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Make no mistake: patriotism is a religion, the enemy of lucidity. It is pure obscurantism, an act of faith.” — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The gospel does in truth proclaim the redemption of reason. Obscurantism is always evil, and wilful error is always sin., All truth… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Here lies one of the world's rare generalized TINAs. There Is No Alternative to creativity and innovation: these days, obscurantism and conservatism… — Robert Heller Copy Share Image
In a sense, New Age gurus are akin to postmodernists within academia. They dispense meaningless drivel that masquerades as profound truths whilst… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming… — David Lehman Copy Share Image
“The essential element in the black art of obscurantism is not that it wants to darken individual understanding, but that it wants… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I later spent a year studying Finnegans Wake with Norman O. Brown, an exercise in masturbatory obscurantism that Bryan would never have… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
“With the idol of certainty (including that of degrees of imperfect certainty or probability) there falls one of the defences of obscurantism… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“Every democracy, whether ochlocracy, aristocracy, oligarchy, monarchy, anarchy, proletarian, popular, or liberal, is by its very nature always a scotocracy, that is,… — Andrej Poleev Copy Share Image
“The transmogrification of Islam into Islamism is bad news not only for the West but also for the majority of Muslims who… — Robert R. Reilly Copy Share Image
“While many find the new clothes of the emperor magnificent, some dare to say out loud, he is simply naked. If the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Informed and rationally articulated dissent contributes to growth of ideas. Uniformed dissent, expressed through lung power, is a sign of insecurity. Countering… — R. N. Prasher Copy Share Image
“Why do scientists never debate philosophers? It’s because they know they would be destroyed in argument, when they have to actually clarify… — Joe Dixon Copy Share Image
“Lenin clearly and unambiguously poses the question of the relationship between the ‘form’ of materialism and its ‘essence’, of the impermissibility of… — Evald Ilyenkov Copy Share Image
“The noble old synagogue had been profaned and turned into a stable by the Nazis, and left open to the elements by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I really don't like art with a message, unless the message is crystal clear. If you have a message that really needs… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
“And I wonder, therefore, how James Atlas can have been so indulgent in his recent essay ‘The Changing World of New York… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
