Against Reason Quotes

22 quotes by 19 authors

[Plato] was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience... — Erwin Schrodinger
Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and… — Ayn Rand
Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason — Paul Tillich
What gives life meaning is a form of rebellion, rebellion against reason, an insistence on believing passionately what we cannot believe rationally. The meaning of… — Robert C. Solomon
In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects passion… — Ford Madox Ford
There are moments in our lives when we summon the courage to make choices that go against reason, against common sense and the wise counsel… — Howard Schultz
Even those who identify themselves as libertarians follow an overtly anti-rationalist philosophy, as even a brief acquaintance with the work of Friedrich Hayek should make… — Philip E. Agre
Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and which approves if I do… — Artur Phleps
To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason - to believe something by faith - is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits… — A.C. Grayling
Religion is an act of sedition against reason. Whatever religion is most seductive and likely to draw in victims to surrender their skepticism is the… — PZ Myers
Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and… — Henry Knox
It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge. — Michel Foucault
Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them. — Thomas Hobbes
He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender… — Thomas Paine
I cannot project the degree of hatred required to make those women run around in crusades against abortion. Hatred is what they certainly project, not… — Ayn Rand
The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once… — Charles Dickens
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. — Charles Dickens
Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason. — Isaac Asimov
It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller. — H.G. Wells
How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law. — Edward Coke

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