“We are forced to fall back on fatalism as an explanation of irrational events (that is to say, events the reasonableness of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Can't find a reason why God gave you to me. But that's not a question to be asked. May be question is… — Lisa Hoffman Copy Share Image
Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
It's a funny thing, by the way, how people who love free markets are also quite sure that they know that investors… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Most illogical Irrational nature of our womanhood, That blushes one way, feels another way, And prays, perhaps another! — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Bin Laden does reprehensible activities, and we should surely take care of that by killing him as soon as we can. But… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Forced to define 'irrational subconscious,' I would say that it is a small padded room inside all of us, where the only… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Horror is one of the few genres - romance and comedy are the other two that come to mind - that's all… — Stephen R. Bissette Copy Share Image
“Rationalism is false not because it seeks to express reality in rational mode, so far as this possible, but because it seeks… — osman bakar Copy Share Image
We must present a national persona of being irrational and vindictive, because that's going to terrify people. And then, they'll back off.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You must never stop dreaming. Face reality, yes. But don't stop with the way things are; dream of things as they ought… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Eiffel saw his Tower in the form of a serious object, rational, useful; men return it to him in the form of… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
It is irrational to charge high prices for socially valuable innovations as this guarantees that they will be underutilized. It is much… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
In a way, both the U.S. media and those wacky rioters in the Afghan-Pakistani hinterlands are very similar, two highly parochial and… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The process of inner self-examination brings about a knowledge that is as rigorous and supported by evidence as anything science has to… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The modern habit of saying "This is my opinion, but I may be wrong" is entirely irrational. If I say that it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by nature, notice the steadily more… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Since the Greeks, Western man has believed that Being, all Being, is intelligible, that there is a reason for everythingand that the… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“The traditional arguments for the existence of God have been fairly thoroughly criticised by philosophers. But the theologian can, if he wishes,… — J.L. Mackie Copy Share Image
“You don’t think that literature can be a reflection of real life?” “Sure it can. But, like I said, Mr. Darcy isn’t… — Christina Boyd Copy Share Image
Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
“Black(people) hold onto their God just as the drunken man holds on to the street lamp post—for physical support only.” — Tai Solarin Copy Share Image
Naturally, our own irrational demands strike us as having the force of needs, while other people's needs strike us as capricious indulgences. — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
I am never excited to play through a song all the way, because it can reveal more flaws that mean more work.… — Robert Lopez Copy Share Image
There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women or that men are more willing to surrender their irrational beliefs.… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
“They will get it straight one day at the Sorbonne. We shall return at twilight from the lecture Pleased that the irrational… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I still had an irrational desire to do an interpretive dance about rainbows, but it was a small price to pay for… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
Rationalism is an attitude of readiness to listen to contrary arguments and to learn from experience... of admitting that "I may be… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“He likes things that make sense, and this word explains everything he knows about me. It makes perfect sense. Unless you don't… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The market can move for irrational reasons, and you have to be prepared for that, ... you need to make big bets… — Bill Gross Copy Share Image
... A rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those ... truths were really… — William James Copy Share Image
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