Reason Quotes by H. P. Lovecraft

8 Reason quotes by H. P. Lovecraft

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H. P. Lovecraft’s eight statements on reason contrast his eerie mythos with moments of rational thought. The collection is brief, yet each quote hints at the tension between logical analysis and the unknowable.

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The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my…

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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his…

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The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and…

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It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind; good and evil are local…

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My reason for writing stories is to give myself the satisfaction of visualising more clearly and detailedly and stably the vague, elusive,…

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When I say that I can write nothing but weird fiction, I am not trying to exalt that medium but am merely…

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I am perfectly confident that I could never adequately convey to any other human being the precise reasons why I continue to…

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The unknown ... became for our primitive forefathers a terrible and omnipotent source of boons and calamities visited upon mankind for cryptic…

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