Unreasoning Quotes

#1. He was invaded by an unreasoning calm, which he interpreted as an omen that nothing new was going to happen, that everything he had done in his life had been in vain, that he could not go on: it was the end.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#2.
'There is no completeness; nothing endures, nothing lives; there is only change, unreasoning unreasonable; only birth and death repeating the same story each time, yet different; why?' The voice laughed
'Why you know already; look in your hands.

Vikram Chandra

#3. How blind and unreasoning and arbitrary are some of the laws of nature - the most of them, in fact!

Mark Twain

#4. All that is mere
rationalism; the superstition (that is the unreasoning repugnance
and terror) is in the person who admits there can be angels but
denies there can be devils. The superstition is in the person who
admits there can be devils but denies there can be diabolists.

G.K. Chesterton

#5. Almost, I think, the unreasoning, bestial purity was best.

Sylvia Plath

#6. There is only one way to respect the substance of any purported God-given moral edict: consider it conscientiously in the full light of reason, using all the evidence at our command. No God that was pleased by displays of unreasoning love would be worthy of worship.

Daniel C. Dennett

#7. I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon with himself.

Hermann Hesse

#8. Religions are easy to invent. Most traditional religions have little or nothing to do with reality, are dependent on obfuscation, interpretation, guilt, and unreasoning faith ...

Anton Szandor LaVey

#9. Let me first assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

William Manchester

#10. The Negro cannot stand the present reactionary tendencies and unreasoning drawing of the color line indefinitely without discouragement and retrogression. And the condition of the Negro is ever the cause for further discrimination.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#11. Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

George Santayana

#12. Love never forgets; or if it does, it is an imperfect love, like the beautiful love of a dog, faithful and unreasoning.

Margaret Deland

#13. Women are queer, unreasoning creatures, and are just as likely as not to love a man who has been throwing away his affection.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#14. After his embarrassment and his unreasoning joy he was consumed with wonder at her presence.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#15. Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#16. A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family's love is unreasoning; you were born into it and are of its flesh and blood. Nevertheless it can irritate you more than any group of people in the world.

Andre Maurois

#17. To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other.

Helena Blavatsky

#18. Dogmas are the toys that amuse and can satisfy but unreasoning children. They are the offspring of human speculation and prejudiced fancy.

H. P. Blavatsky

#19. Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.

George F. Kennan

#20. The sad truth of history has always been that the unreasoning masses follow the powerful, and not the wise.

George R R Martin

#21. It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

Agnes Repplier

#22. This was ... This was sickeningly different. It was blind, unreasoning hate that just wanted blood and she didn't understand why. It left her feeling horrified and shaky.

Rachel Caine

#23. In the love between a man and a woman there always comes a moment when this love has reached its zenith - a moment when it is unconscious, unreasoning, and with nothing sensual about it.

Leo Tolstoy

#24. As usual, the fickle, unreasoning world took Muff Potter to its bosom and fondled him as lavishly as it had abused him before. But that sort of conduct is to the world's credit; therefore it is not well to find fault with it.

Mark Twain

#25. There is something mankind can never destroy in spite of an unreasoning will to destruction, and this is its own idealism, that integral part of its very being.

Radclyffe Hall

#26. Genius, apart from natural sensitiveness, is prone equally to unreasoning joy and to bitterest morbidness.

Mary MacLane

#27. All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event - in the living act, the undoubted deed - there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of
its features from behind the unreasoning mask.

Herman Melville

#28. Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.

B.C. Forbes

#29. She was looking at him from under level brows; her face was grave and open, and there had fallen upon it the shadow of that unreasoning responsibility which is at the bottom of the most frivolous woman, the maternal watch which is as old as the world.

G.K. Chesterton

#30. Unreasoning prejudices are bred out of the continual living in the past

Prentice Mulford

#31. Existence has become an unreasoning, wild dance around the golden calf, a mad worship of God Mammon. In that dance and in that worship man has sacrificed all his finer qualities of the heart and soul - kindness and justice, honor and manhood, compassion and sympathy with his fellowman.

Alexander Berkman

#32. Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up.

Octavia Butler

#33. Oh, love, what an unreasoning creature it grew to be.

Edna O'Brien