Irrationality Quotes
Irrationality Quote of the day
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
A miracle entails a degree of irrationality-not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.
The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.
Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.
The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.
In daily life, reality gives us material incentives to restrain our irrationality. But what incentive do we have to think rationally about politics?
People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.
Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
Atheism, which people have tried to for hundreds of years as 'the ways of reason and science,' is proving to be mere irrationality and ignorance.
A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty of others.
The idea of Jewish settlements under Palestinian sovereignty, as was suggested by someone in the Prime Minister's office, is very dangerous and reflects an irrationality of values.
No evidence is powerful enough to force acceptance of a conclusion that is emotionally distasteful.
We're living through an age of irrationality and religious "fervor" I would call it religious idiocy. It's exhausting to year after year be on the receiving end of this demagoguery.
...following Mrs. Roosevelt in search of irrationality was like following a burning fuse in search of an explosive.
The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality - without exploiting them for fun and profit
Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal.
Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and dogmatism. So too, Scholasticism.
The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience.
To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.
Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it.
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.
Priest is a fisherman and Holy Book is a fishook. We either refuse to be a fish or we burn in the frying pan of irrationality!
I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger, and I cannot admit the irrationality of love.-Marius
Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that saves us.
Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings.
I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.
To enlighten people by reminding them the irrationality of their beliefs is an act more honest and more important than the act of praising and respecting people's beliefs!
Interestingly, human irrationality is a hot topic in economics at the moment. Behavioural economics it's called, on the cusp of economics and psychology.
The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.
For my part, I prefer the ontological argument, the cosmological argument and the rest of the old stock-in-trade, to the sentimental illogicality that has sprung from Rousseau.
A narrow hallway is all that separates rational from irrational, creativity from insanity, and intelligence from stupidity.
A stink. A stench. A foulness in her mind, dreadful and unforgiving. A compost of horrible ideas and rotted thoughts that made her want to take our her brain and wash it.
It seems that life, in order to maintain itself, must revolt every so often against man's ceaseless attempts to master its irrational forces with his mind.
If thou really believe in one God, irrationality is subset of thou logic.
When you go with first principles, a giant light goes off in what you think is a city and turns out to be an insane asylum.
