Irrational Quotes

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.

The very ritual practices that the New Atheists dismiss as costly, inefficient and irrational turn out to be a solution to one of the hardest problems humans face: cooperation without kinship

Why will someone sell you a dollar for 50 cents? Because in the short run, people are irrational on both the optimistic and pessimistic side.

Irrational beliefs are culturally accepted delusions.

An exotic and irrational entertainment.

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

I am bundle of nerves riddled with irrational fears.

Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.

Excessive or irrational schedules are probably the single most destructive influence in all of software

Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant

We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior.

People will assign irrational importance to almost anything in quotes on top of a pleasant image

If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.

It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know.

To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.

The techniques of kitsch, which are based on imitation, are rational and operate according to formulas; the remain rational even when their result has a highly irrational, even crazy, quality.

Irrational lenders come and go - mostly they go!

If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesnt get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.

While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the conscious and unconscious.

I have no phobias. Phobias are irrational. My fears are rational and CAREFULLY CULTIVATED, like roses.

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

Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality.

The nightmare of the Cold War was nuclear weapons in the hands of an irrational person. I don't want to live through that nightmare.

Pathological Stubbornness and Irrational Optimism – Lessons I’ve learned on my entrepreneurial journey

Irrational judgements lead to new experience.

Love is irrational, I reminded myself. The more you loved someone, the less sense anything made.

The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.

I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn't change them. That hurt.

Who would seriously want to listen to anything emanating from a quasi-chimpanzee's irrational bundle of mental accidents and energies?

The Euro is a conquest of sovereignty. It gives us a margin of manoeuvre. Its a tool to help us master globalisation and help us resist irrational shifts in the market.

Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel.

Every discovery contains an irrational element or a creative intuition.

The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act bored and above-it-all.

Being a sports fan is a complex matter, in part irrational but not unworthy; a relief from the seriousness of the real world, with its unending pressures and often grave obligations.

In the '90s it was irrational exuberance. Now it may be irrational doom and gloom.

I didn't ask you to catch me!" "You're so delightful when you're irrational. Of course I'm going to catch you." He slid a hand behind her nape and kissed her again. "It's what I do.

It seems like topsy-turvyland to make reason serve the irrational. Yet that is just what it has always done, and ought always to do.

A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death.

I'm trapped in a fun-house mirror reflection of a historical society where everyone was crazy by default, driven mad by irrational laws and meaningless customs.

Many students of dreams, from Plato to [Sigmund] Freud, hold that the sleeping person,deprived of contact with the outside world, regresses temporarily to an irrational primitive mental state.

Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Society doesn't need that everybody is behaving in the full normal way... like people in a Buddhist monastery... But eccentricity may also connect with the irrational.

The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives.

Mother love is the most powerful, the most irrational force on earth, even more powerful than sexual love. However, one does lead to the other, so best not to spurn the former.

... there is no such thing as a rational world and a separate irrational world, but only one world containing both.

It's not an irrational decision, I've been thinking about this for quite a while and maybe it'll be good for me [on his career break