20th century Quote by Jean Houston

“Given the state of disaster we humans have wrought upon the planet, it seems an argument can be made for the inferiority of the…

— Hope Bohanec

“the Holocaust suggested to many that reason is the most monstrous of all of man’s faculties.”

— Evan Sayet

The propensity to intellectualize is itself both essential and dangerous. I think in our modern world we are much more aware of its essential…

— Talal Asad

“Now we’ve a real intellectual impasse. Our reason, which is supposed to make things more intelligible, seems to be making them less intelligible, and…

— Robert M. Pirsig

It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend its own…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political…

— Thomas Sowell

The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.

— Blaise Pascal

Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason

— Paul Tillich

“the easy acceptance of atrocities as a deplorable but necessary price to pay for progress (Hiroshima and Vietnam, to save Western civilization; Kronstadt and…

— Howard Zinn

“reasonings on this subject can only be drawn from effects to causes; and that every argument, deducted from causes to effects, must of necessity…

— David Hume

Distorting the history of World War II, denying the crimes of genocide and the Holocaust as well as an instrumental use of Auschwitz to…

— Andrzej Duda

Animism is worth considering (a) because it exists, (b) because it addresses contemporary issues and debates, and (c) because it clarifies, in various ways,…

— Graham Harvey