Unreason Quotes
28 quotes by 21 authors
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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
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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
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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
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If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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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
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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
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The dialectic cannot stop short before the conceptsof health and sickness, nor indeed before their siblings reason and unreason.
— Theodor Adorno
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure
— Ambrose Bierce
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms.
— Salman Rushdie
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We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.
— Edward R. Murrow
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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: