Baruch Spinoza Quotes

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.

I've always thought things were absurd. It would take a lot more effort for me to see things as reasonable.

Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason.

No sense makes sense.

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.

Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason.

Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.

what is unreasonable is irrefutable.

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.

My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.

Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.

Nothing makes logical sense in this industry.

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.

Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?

If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.

Not everything that exists today is reasonable; but this does not mean that everything that does not exist is sensible.