Quotes of Unreason - somelinesforyou

“ Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect. ”

- Sir Robin Day

“ 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 folly to kill one another for interests often imaginary, and always for the pleasure of persons who do not think themselves even obliged to those who sacrifice themselves for them! ”

- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

“ 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

“ 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
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