Irrational Quotes

Grace is the offer of God's ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.

There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.

A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.

I think life's an irrational obsession.

I am a reasonable and sane functionalist tempered by irrational frivolity.

Hysteria is a chaotic and irrational emotional state caused by seeing how the world really operates.

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?

To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty... and... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's... all irrational.

Fear is ugly because it makes you irrational. Fear makes you jump to conclusions. Fear makes you reactionary.

To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.

Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.

Addicts are ALWAYS irrational when it comes to their habits.

Behind every rational and irrational force in human society there is a social mechanism which determines where it is to appear and what forms it is to take.

There is nothing to fear but fear itself. And spiders. ~Bumper sticker~

Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.

We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.

When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.

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

These 3 topics will always generate 100+ comments of irrational/ridiculous people: Taxes, tipping, and spending on weddings.

Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built.

It was clear to me that the vulnerable point of the American Grandmaster (Bobby Fischer) was in double-edged, hanging, irrational positions, where he often failed to find a win even in a won position

What good your beautiful proof on the transcendence of Pi: Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist?

Flesh-eating by humans is unnecessary, irrational, anatomically unsound, unhealthy, unhygienic, uneconomic, unaesthetic, unkind and unethical. May I elaborate?

Anger and depression are not diseases or dysfunctions or anomalies; they are perfectly rational responses to the myriad avoidable disappointments that begin in a thoroughly irrational hope.

Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other language.

Research – and using what you learn from it to analyze every situation – is what separates being unreasonable from being irrational.

A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied

The voice of reason is inaudible to irrational people.

Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.

Religion is an irrational construct.

Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly.

When I photograph, I try to use my instincts as much as possible. It is when pictures are unconsidered and irrational that they come to life; that they evolve from showing to being.

The ... irrational fear of communism is being deliberately used in many quarters to blind us to our real problems.

The transfinite numbers are in a sense the new irrationalities [ ... they] stand or fall with the finite irrational numbers.

Sleep is the gateway to those nightly visitations of the irrational.

PRONOIA: The irrational belief that people like you

Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.

I knew my affection for the Philippines was equally as telling: a democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chaos. A place where I'd felt instantly at home.

People are irrational - and predictably so.

-But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.

Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.

They did it for love, and sometimes love makes us do the irrational .. even the inexcusable.

My position is that we should not succumb to irrational belief.

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

The creative individual not only respects the irrational in himself, but also courts the most promising source of novelty in his own thought.

Art is magic, not logic. This craze for the logical spirit in irrational shape is part of the present harmful mania for uniformity.

How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

An exotic and irrational entertainment, which has been always combated, and always has prevailed.