Lars von Trier Quotes

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

It's hard to find logic in things sometimes. That's why I can't analyze things too much, because it often doesn't make much sense.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion.

In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.

I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker.

Emotion is a rotten base for politics.

Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

Italians think with their heads.

It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.

I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds.

Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.

Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.

Bein logical gave me a reason to doubt

Logic is a wonderful invention. It is so wonderful, people often mistake it for reason. Reason, however, requires sense. Logic requires only consistency.

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

We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.

Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created

There is no greater monster than reason.

Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse.