Unthinking Quotes
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Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
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Perhaps a revolution can overthrow autocratic despotism and profiteering or power-grabbing oppression, but it can never truly reform a manner of thinking; instead, new prejudices, just like the old ones they replace, will serve as a leash for the great Unthinking mass.
Immanuel Kant— Immanuel Kant, What Is Enlightenment.
I am a Socialist not through reading a textbook that has caught my intellectual fancy, nor through Unthinking tradition, but because I believe that, at its best, Socialism corresponds most closely to an existence that is both rational and moral. It stands for co-operation, not confrontation; for fellowship, not fear. It stands for equality, not because it wants people to be the same but because only through equality in our economic circumstances can our individuality develop properly.
— Tony Blair, in his maiden speech as MP for Sedgefield (6 July 1983) as quoted in Hansard, House of Commons, 6th Series, vol. 45, col. 316
War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and Unthinking element of the nation.
percival lowell— Chapter XXXII, Conclusion
Avery merry, dancing, drinking, Laughing, quaffing, and Unthinking time.
john dryden— 1700 The Secular Masque, l.39-40.
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Albert Einstein— Letter to Jost Winteler (1901), quoted in The Private Lives of Albert Einstein by Roger Highfield and Paul Carter (1993, pg. 79). Einstein had been annoyed that Paul Drude, editor of Annalen der Physik, had dismissed out of hand some criticisms Einstein made of Drude's electron theory of metals.
Stop not, Unthinking, every friend you meet To spin your wordy fabric in the street; While you are emptying your colloquial pack, The fiend Lumbago jumps upon his back.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Urania, A Rhymed Lesson, line 439.
Not only psychiatry itself but also the values reflected in its statistical definition of “normalcy” serve to condition men to habitual, Unthinking, conformist behavior.
— Benjamin R. Barber, “Forced to be Free: An Illiberal Defense of Liberty,” Superman and Common Men (New York: 1971), pp. 68-69
A very merry, dancing, drinking, Laughing, quaffing, and Unthinking time.
john dryden— John Dryden, The Secular Masque, line 40.
There's been enough killing, Chessene, and it's my fault. I took an Androgum, a lowly, Unthinking creature of instinct, and tried to set her among the gods.
— Who: Joinson Dastari
— Source: The Two Doctors: Episode 3 (1985)
— Notes: .
Mrs. Brisbane-Brown was a relic, but only the Unthinking would have called her a snob. For snobbishness implies some sense of insecurity, and she was perfectly secure.
john buchan— Ch. 6 (Castle Gay (1930))
War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and Unthinking element of the nation.
percival lowell— Percival Lowell, Mars and its Canals (1906), Chapter XXXII, Conclusion
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the Unthinking.
john maynard keynes— John Maynard Keynes, New Statesman and Nation (15 July 1933)
Perhaps a revolution can overthrow autocratic despotism and profiteering or power-grabbing oppression, but it can never truly reform a manner of thinking; instead, new prejudices, just like the old ones they replace, will serve as a leash for the great Unthinking mass.
Immanuel Kant— Immanuel Kant, What Is Enlightenment.
As it is so strangely ordained in this world, what is amusing will turn into being gloomy, if you stand too long before it, and then God knows what ideas may not stray into the mind... Why is it that even in moments of Unthinking, careless gaiety a different and strange mood comes upon one?
nikolai vasilievich gogol— Vol. I, ch. 3
And then there are Unthinking, animal types who seem to be satisfied with a purely physical sense of power (the good combat soldier, who gets his sense of power by developing fighting skills that he is quite content to use in blind obedience to his superiors).
theodore kaczynski— "Autonomy", item 43
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the Unthinking.
john maynard keynes— New Statesman and Nation (15 July 1933)
Siphonophores do not convey the message a favorite theme of Unthinking romanticism that nature is but one gigantic whole, all its parts intimately connected and interacting in some higher, ineffable harmony. Nature revels in boundaries and distinctions; we inhabit a universe of structure. But since our universe of structure has evolved historically, it must present us with fuzzy boundaries, where one kind of thing grades into another.
stephen jay gould— "A Most Ingenious Paradox", p. 95
America makes prodigious mistakes, America has cummings thoroughly and perfectlyannihilated by that vast and painful process of Unthinking which may result in a minutebitof purelypersonal Feeling.Whichminutebit is Art. colossal faults, but onething cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
— 1922 The Enormous Room, ch.12. 1927 'Why I Like America', in Vanity Fair, May.
