Who's to say that certain types of irrational thinking aren't exactly what the world needs?
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Quotes tagged ‘Logic Against Logic’
Pure common sense cannot accept the proposition that God.
Wise is the man who can see that there is a madness in all claims by reason to have found an absolute truth.
The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy, taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.
One feels that there is something else to be expressed besides what is offered for objective expression. What should be expressed is hidden grandeur.
Logic is always defeated by itself, that is to say, by the insignificance of the cases on which it thrives.
Rational thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.
But we are not authoritative in questions of fact. Like every other kind of judgment that we make, our judgments about what seems green and what is green cannot be tested by a jury of angels: human jurors are the only ones we have.
My purpose: to demonstrate the absolute oppressiveness of all events and the application of moral distinctions as conditioned by perspective; to demonstrate how everything praised as moral is identical in essence with everything immoral and was made possible, as in every development of morality, wit…
There is no wisdom, only many wisdoms— beautiful and delusional.
Total explicitness is impossible. The effort of formal logic to make thought entirely explicit, while an admirable and in many ways indispensable and fantastically productive effort, is ultimately doomed to failure and entails deep psychological strain because of its unreality. Thought can only be m…
Objects can’t be presented directly because they are not inert but parts of a process, and the relations between things are important than the things themselves.
Whatever forces us to assume that there is an essential difference between 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume different levels of semblance, lighter and darker shadows and tones of semblance — different values in the painter's sense of the term?
My analysis of practice points to a situatedness and path dependence of knowledge production.
In Schmitt’s view, all thought, which does not recognize that order is created out of disorder and that rationality is based on an 'irrational' foundation, is itself irrational.