Against Reason Quotes
22 quotes by 19 authors
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[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
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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
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Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason
— Paul Tillich
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
— Michel Foucault
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Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.
— Thomas Hobbes
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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
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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
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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
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I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
— Charles Dickens
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Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
— Isaac Asimov
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It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller.
— H.G. Wells
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How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.
— Edward Coke
Who Wrote These Against Reason Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 22 Against Reason Quotes as follows: