Obscurantism Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Informed and rationally articulated dissent contributes to growth of ideas. Uniformed dissent, expressed through lung power, is a sign of insecurity. Countering dissent with…

— R. N. Prasher

“But it is the main question at the moment: which side one’s on—obscurantism or Order.”

— C.S. Lewis

“I really don't like art with a message, unless the message is crystal clear. If you have a message that really needs to be…

— Doug Stanhope

Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority…

— David Lehman

“Why do scientists never debate philosophers? It’s because they know they would be destroyed in argument, when they have to actually clarify their ridiculous…

— Joe Dixon

The gospel does in truth proclaim the redemption of reason. Obscurantism is always evil, and wilful error is always sin., All truth is God's…

— J. I. Packer

Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a spiral. Any…

— Anonymous

“Every democracy, whether ochlocracy, aristocracy, oligarchy, monarchy, anarchy, proletarian, popular, or liberal, is by its very nature always a scotocracy, that is, the rule…

— Andrej Poleev

“Lenin clearly and unambiguously poses the question of the relationship between the ‘form’ of materialism and its ‘essence’, of the impermissibility of identification of…

— Evald Ilyenkov

“What an irony that modern man, engaged as he is in the pursuit of knowledge, allows himself to be stymied by the dogmas of…

— B.S. Murthy

“And I wonder, therefore, how James Atlas can have been so indulgent in his recent essay ‘The Changing World of New York Intellectuals.’ This…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The noble old synagogue had been profaned and turned into a stable by the Nazis, and left open to the elements by the Communists,…

— Christopher Hitchens