Irrational Quotes
The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.
Behind every flinch is a fear or an anxiety - sometimes rational, sometimes not. Without the fear, there is no flinch. But wiping out the fear isn't what's important - facing it is.
The hope is indeed that some will experience and believe: The purpose of a number of spiritual gurus is to demonstrate to God-fearing men faux spirituality.
I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational.
I have irrational fears, and they all go back to losing my father as a kid. I've never gotten over it.
I knew all the time I was going to get through the war. It was completely irrational, a silly idea, but I was not going to lie down and get myself killed. I was going to get out of it.
I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise of ... shall we say, power.
Love is an irrational force, making humans do all sorts of strange and wonderful things like write poetry and take up the ukulele.
It is not man who is the enemy of the human species. It is the irrational; it is the spiritual when it is divorced from the material; from the lesson in one beating heart or one bleeding vein.
I saw that evil was impotent—that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real—and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of the good to serve it.
When we approach history, we are dealing with a conglomeration of irrational continua. Those who deal with history by nonrational processes are the ones who make history, the actors in it.
I am a superior form of human and I have absolutely no quirks or irrational impulses of any kind.
It is sometimes rational to do what is wrong, and sometimes irrational to do what is right
Science fiction has always had a dark side. There has been a touch of the irrational and absurd in the genre from the very beginning.
The Greeks were the first intellectualists. In a world where the irrational had played the chief role, they came forward as the protagonists of the mind.
Most illogical Irrational nature of our womanhood, That blushes one way, feels another way, And prays, perhaps another!
The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.
Nothing could be more irrational than to give the people power, and to withhold from them information without which power is abused.
Secrets are inherently selfish. The longer you keep them, the harder it is to put yourself in other people's shoes about them and the more irrational your thinking surrounding it becomes.
Irrational crushes, infatuations, or obsessions. Whatever you want to label it, it's important to reach out to others.
If you're afraid of something, face it. Fear is irrational. The only way to conquer your fear is to stand next to it.
Kestilan?" There was that name again. Oliver fought down an irrational surge of jealousy for this mysterious being who took up so much of Petunia's attention.
There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.
Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.
Trump was the logical outcome of the Republican's irrational, racialized backlash to Obama that had utterly come to dominate the party's thinking.
I like irrational things. I like scenarios where I can think, 'It would be great if at this point we could do x.' And there doesn't have to be a reason for 'x'.
Building a company is basically taking all the irrational people you know... Putting them in one building and then living with them 12 hrs a day at least.
At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.
I still had an irrational desire to do an interpretive dance about rainbows, but it was a small price to pay for being healed.
By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There’s no specific line, as you know.
One should believe only what can be chosen to be true or just. Irrational (or unjustified) beliefs should be avoided because they can have disastrous practical consequences.
Every attempt to explain human behavior, especially the irrational, must as a matter of course end in simplification.
We have to be irrational and vindictive, because that's going to frighten people. And we have to maintain this for years. And then we'll be able to carry out the actions that we want to carry out.
I think it's ok to have wishes that conflict with each other - it's irrational to try to make them both come true, but not irrational simply to have them.
I love the idea of bringing order out of disorder which is what the mystery is about. I like the way in which it affirms the sanity of human life and exorcises irrational guilts.
It's a funny thing, by the way, how people who love free markets are also quite sure that they know that investors are being irrational.
If one's patriotism is merely instinctive it is irrational and irresponsible, and consequently a danger to one's country.
There are real threats but there's a difference between recognizing real threats and an irrational kind of apocalyptic threat.