“I’ve realized now that hope almost never goes together with reason. It’s something quite irrational and instinctive.” — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
No, but I've never been one for wise ideas," he says. "I believe in irrational, fleeting decisions that keep life interesting. And… — Jessica Sorensen Copy Share Image
When I photograph, I try to use my instincts as much as possible. It is when pictures are unconsidered and irrational that… — Jacob Aue Sobol Copy Share Image
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
I have an irrational fear that something bad is going to happen to me when I'm drinking out of a water fountain.… — Andrew Luck Copy Share Image
In Scripture, faith involves placing trust in what you have reason to believe is true. Faith is not a blind, irrational leap… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
One can discern a few very general myths that facilitate the birth of further myths: that everything is possible; that whatever we… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
“The irrational is the impossible; it is that which contradicts the facts of reality; facts cannot be altered by a wish, but… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“If I had to describe what love meant, really, not in the abstract or the sentimental or the way I'd imagined it… — Jill Bialosky Copy Share Image
September 11 was a day of de-Enlightenment. Politics stood revealed as a veritable Walpurgis Night of the irrational. And such old, old… — Martin Amis 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
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular… — William James Copy Share Image
The ... irrational fear of communism is being deliberately used in many quarters to blind us to our real problems. — Helen Gahagan Douglas 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
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
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 primary problem is not to provide the public with the knowledge of how far it is to the nearest star and… — Richard Lewontin 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
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
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
“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
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
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
I still believe that any country understands that if they use nuclear weapons, they will be wiped out of existence. They could… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
We'll tell our secrets to the dark"-Adam "Okay"-Mia "So let's hear another of your irrational fears"-Adam "I'm scared of losing you"-Mia "I… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
In [the soul] one part naturally rules, and the other is subject, and the virtue of the ruler we maintain to be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“This is one of the reasons I study psychology. I’ve never understood why people are so irrational. How supposedly intelligent people can… — G.F. Gustav Copy Share Image
Parenting is not logical. If it were, we would never have to read a book, never need a family therapist, and never… — Jeanne Elium 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, it may be rational for me to jump into the canal. But I have no reason to jump. I merely think I do. And, if some dangerous treatment would save your…” quote by Derek Parfit](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9ed/derek-parfit-38765_action_while-reasons-are-provided-by-the-facts_2530646.png)
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