I don't have any irrational fears. Obviously, if I was walking through the outback, and I saw a snake, I wouldn't go… — Ophelia Lovibond Copy Share Image
I like irrational things. I like scenarios where I can think, 'It would be great if at this point we could do… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
Love is an irrational force, making humans do all sorts of strange and wonderful things like write poetry and take up the… — Amy Dickinson Copy Share Image
Anthropocentrism is simply irrational. And yet this is the thrust of much of our traditional religious thought and teaching, particularly in the… — Russell E. Train Copy Share Image
Who is more irrational, the guy who believes in a God he can't see, or a guy who's offended by a God… — Brad Stine Copy Share Image
I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The techniques of kitsch, which are based on imitation, are rational and operate according to formulas; the remain rational even when their… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
For too long we have placed an irrational burden upon our oceans by demanding only a narrow selection of species, which has… — Barton Seaver Copy Share Image
“we don’t assume that people are perfectly sensible, calculating machines. Instead, we observe how people actually behave, and quite often our observations… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
As I'm writing, I start to see connections, and themes I didn't see, and that sparks other things. So then I go… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her, and a… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It seems to be very hard for people to live with riddles or to let them live, although one would think that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished! To endure,… — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
At my years, and with my disposition, or rather, constitution, one gets to care less and less for everything except downright goodfeeling.… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The creative individual not only respects the irrational in himself, but also courts the most promising source of novelty in his own… — Frank Barron Copy Share Image
What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting. — Virginia Satir Copy Share Image
Many students of dreams, from Plato to [Sigmund] Freud, hold that the sleeping person,deprived of contact with the outside world, regresses temporarily… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Who would seriously want to listen to anything emanating from a quasi-chimpanzee's irrational bundle of mental accidents and energies? — David A. Noebel Copy Share Image
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… — Shana Abe Copy Share Image
We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of men and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd. — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
... it is because one can build a compelling set of arguments - informed by science and thoroughly compatible with it -… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“The bodies of irrational animals are bent toward the ground, whereas man was made to walk erect with his eyes on heaven,… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
There are big, extremely irrational parts of the society, and they have now been mobilized politically by the Republican establishment, hoping that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Every attempt to explain human behavior, especially the irrational, must as a matter of course end in simplification. — Morton Irving Seiden Copy Share Image
Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Once a restless or frayed mood has turned to anger, or violence, or psychosis, Richard, like most, finds it very difficult to… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Everyone declares that love is irrational, and yet everytime this statement is proven correct, they profess amazement. They seem to assume that… — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
I knew my affection for the Philippines was equally as telling: a democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
There are irrational fears. If you see a woman wearing a hijab and fear is your first thought, something's really wrong. — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities. — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
The transfinite numbers are in a sense the new irrationalities [ ... they] stand or fall with the finite irrational numbers. — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
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… — Ronnie O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
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