Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
“Human relationships were so complicated and always veering in the direction of the irrational.” — Michael D. O'Brien Copy Share Image
At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
As an engineer, I learned that a long time ago: you don't want to get into a rational discussion about irrational subjects. — Shahid Khan Copy Share Image
Society doesn't need that everybody is behaving in the full normal way... like people in a Buddhist monastery... But eccentricity may also… — John Muir Copy Share Image
We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It's totally irrational, patently insane to condemn an entire race - to despise an entire nation - to vilify an entire religion. — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
“It is a strange fancy to suppose that science can bring reason to an irrational world, when all it can ever do… — John Gray Copy Share Image
To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I think it's ok to have wishes that conflict with each other - it's irrational to try to make them both come… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
The rational mind of man is a shallow thing, a shore upon a continent of the irrational, wherein thin colonies of reason… — Wilford O Cross Copy Share Image
To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
How do you know all this? Jeez, Tory, you’re a kid. Act like it. (Geary) (Tory reached out and punched her on… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Sanity is a matter of culture and convention. If it's a crazy culture you live in, then you have to be irrational… — Margaret Millar Copy Share Image
“She knows some of her thoughts are irrational. She knows it and has always known it, even in fifth grade, when she… — Lisa McMann Copy Share Image
While reasons are provided by the facts,...rationality...depends instead on our beliefs. [...] [I]f I believe falsely that my hotel is on fire,… — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
“He twisted at the waist and stretched out on his side. “You’re a bit crazy. You throw apples in people’s faces when… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
I've always been sceptical about the notion that the market is a person you can engage in an argument with, and that… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
“In addition to anxiety and irritability, other symptoms include an irrational belief that he can alter reality; a clear tendency to act… — Basma Abdel Aziz Copy Share Image
We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Anytime that is ‘betwixt and between’ or transitional is the faeries’ favorite time. They inhabit transitional spaces: the bottom of the garden,… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
The transfinite numbers are in a certain sense themselves new irrationalities and in fact in my opinion the best method of defining… — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
[Trump's worldview states] that, for example, women are incompetent as compared to men in business settings. That women in general are intellectually… — Jennifer Pozner Copy Share Image
Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Nothing goes on forever. I think that's one of the illusions of life. When I talk about my life being an extension… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
I steal into their dreams," he said. "I steal into their most shameful thoughts, I'm in every shiver, every spasm of their… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
When...did it become irrational to dislike religion, any religion, even to dislike it vehemently? When did reason get redescribed as unreason? When… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The Greeks were the first intellectualists. In a world where the irrational had played the chief role, they came forward as the… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
I love the idea of bringing order out of disorder which is what the mystery is about. I like the way in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The irrational, the human nostalgia, and the absurd that is born of their encounter - these are the three characters in the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It seems like topsy-turvyland to make reason serve the irrational. Yet that is just what it has always done, and ought always… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
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