Unreason Quotes

28 quotes by 21 authors

The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices, to part with… — Lewis Mumford
I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as war. Indeed, what… — Mary Wortley Montagu
These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular… — Alain Badiou
If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce? — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that… — Edward R. Murrow
The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its narrowness, one set… — Sri Aurobindo
The dialectic cannot stop short before the conceptsof health and sickness, nor indeed before their siblings reason and unreason. — Theodor Adorno
Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream… — Salman Rushdie
Religion, a medieval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly… — Salman Rushdie
When it comes to religion, we're not two sides of the same coin, and you don't get to put your unreason up on the same… — Bill Maher
We celebrate [Easter] because now, thanks to the risen Lord, it is definitively established that reason is stronger than unreason, truth stronger than lies, love… — Pope Benedict XVI
And more than once in the course of time, the same theme reappears: among the mystics of the fifteenth century, it has become the motif… — Michel Foucault
Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure — Ambrose Bierce
Reason may be a small force, but it is constant, and works always in one direction, while the forces of unreason destroy one another in… — Bertrand Russell
I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more… — Carl Sagan
Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe,… — Michel Foucault
A woman means by Unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others...thus, while the woman thinks of doing good… — C.S. Lewis
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. — Salman Rushdie
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason. — Edward R. Murrow
What is a logical mind?... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified. — William John Locke

Who Wrote These Unreason Quotes

21 authors contributed a total of 28 Unreason Quotes as follows: