Top 47 Quotes About Unreason
#2. When all is said and done, how do we know but that our own unreason may be better than another's truth? for it has been warmed on our hearths and in our souls, and is ready for the wild bees of truth to hive in it, and make their sweet honey.
William Butler Yeats
#3. The dialectic cannot stop short before the conceptsof health and sickness, nor indeed before their siblings reason and unreason.
Theodor Adorno
#4. They have said that we owe allegiance to Safety, that he is our Red Cross who will provide us with ointment and bandages for our wounds and remove the foreign ideas the glass beads of fantasy the bent hairpins of unreason embedded in our minds.
Janet Frame
#5. Where are all those virtues of unreason that have shaped our idea of love?
Milan Kundera
#7. As though God had turned away from the wise, and written his decrees, not in the mind of man but in the entrails of beasts, or left them to be proclaimed by the inspiration and instinct of
fools, madmen, and birds. Such is the unreason to which terror can drive mankind!
Baruch Spinoza
#8. The unthinking embrace of irrationality is literally madness. But embracing rationality while denying the existence of any mystery to life and its meaning - that is no less a form of madness than is eager devotion to unreason.
Dean Koontz
#9. What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason.
Ellen Glasgow
#10. I was a young girl, a virgin, and therefore men denied me rationality just as they denied it to all those who were not exactly like themselves, in all their unreason.
Angela Carter
#11. Five wild Event Maelstroms swirled in vicious storms of unreason and spewed up a pavement.
Douglas Adams
#12. I suppose the advocates of unreason think that there is a better chance of profitably deceiving the populace if they keep it in a state of effervescence.
Bertrand Russell
#13. Reason becomes unreason when separated from the heart, and a psychic life void of universal ideas sickens from undernourishment. ~Carl Jung, The Symbolic Life, Page 311.
C. G. Jung
#14. 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 futile strife.
Bertrand Russell
#15. [Perverse] unreason has its own logical processes
Joseph Conrad
#16. 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 of roots and the mirage of the journey.
Salman Rushdie
#17. Little by little, or maybe all at once, everything comes to mean its opposite; unreason argues itself into reason, and vice versa, and we cannot see the seams.
Joseph Heller
#18. Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure
Ambrose Bierce
#19. What is a logical mind? ... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified.
William John Locke
#20. Today the invisible hand seems confused and indecisive ... Ideology and rhetoric increasingly guide policy decision, often bearing little relationship to factual reality. And the America we once knew seems divided and angry, defiantly embracing unreason.
Shawn Lawrence Otto
#21. It is the love of ordinary people, in Burma, in Japan or anywhere else in the world, for justice and peace and freedom that is our surest defense against the forces of unreason and extremism ...
Aung San Suu Kyi
#22. Unreason is in the same relation to reason as dazzlement to the brightness of daylight itself.
Michel Foucault
#23. The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#24. The world is absolutely out of control now and is not going to be saved by any reason or unreason.
Robert Lowell
#25. 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 ideological obsessions, to entertain new ideas or to improve new plans.
Lewis Mumford
#26. Science stands for rational thought, faith for superstition and unreason.
Deepak Chopra
#27. The objection to propaganda is not only its appeal to unreason, but still more the unfair advantage which it gives to the rich and powerful.
Bertrand Russell
#29. This idea was first coined by Charles Handy in his book The Age of Unreason
Jeff Goins
#31. I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational.
Dean Koontz
#32. - All things that endure for a long time are little by little so greatly permeated by reason that their origin in unreason becomes improbable. Does
Friedrich Nietzsche
#33. And now, if we try to assign a value, in and of itself, outside its relations to the dream and with error, to classical unreason, we must understand it not as reason diseased, or as reason lost or alienated, but quite simply as reason dazzled.
Michel Foucault
#34. This isn't a reasoned response to a configuration of stars, but the heart cannot flourish on logic alone. Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you don't overdose
Dean Koontz
#35. Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#36. What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust.
Salman Rushdie
#37. Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.
Robin Day
#38. better doubtless to believe much unreason and a little truth than to deny for denial's sake truth and unreason alike,
W.B.Yeats
#39. Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you do not overdose.
Dean Koontz
#40. Maybe the consequences of someone's unreason can be remedied only with a new unreason?
Igor Eliseev
#41. 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, nor most certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise.
Michel Foucault
#42. 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 stronger than death.
Pope Benedict XVI
#43. There can be no greater antithesis than between the Greeks' rational and objective truth and the "truth of unreason," as Bertrand Russell aptly termed faith in religions, fictions about supernatural beings that soothe and comfort weaklings who are afraid to contemplate the grim world of reality.
Revilo P. Oliver
#44. When all is said and done, how do we not know but that our own unreason may be better than another's truth? for it has been warmed on our hearths and in our souls, and is ready for the wild bees of truth to hive in it, and make their sweet honey. Come into the world again, wild bees, wild bees!
W.B.Yeats
#45. 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 mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today.
Salman Rushdie
#46. 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 powers of unreason and ignorance.
Alain Badiou
#47. And, like Christmas, Armand has brought gifts. But he is no fat, sweet Santa Claus who rewards the nice; he is the Lord of Misrule, the Abbot of Unreason in charge of scandalous fun.
Eliza Crewe
