Fundamental assumptions in general and scientific assumptions in particular are so hard to overturn because they are based on belief. Beliefs are… — Thomas Campbell Copy Share Image
A passion is a contranatural movement of the soul or an irrational love, or an blindfold hatred toward any material thing, or… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
While scholars are comparing and contrasting theories, debating intellectual questions, and dividing humankind into categories, the world is changed by persons with… — Grey Owl Copy Share Image
Many bodybuilders sell themselves short. Erroneously attributing their lack of satisfactory progress to a poverty of the requisite genetic traits, instead of… — Mike Mentzer Copy Share Image
While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
Beginning in the 1960s, many studies showed that people who hold what we call irrational beliefs are significantly more disturbed than when… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
In medicine as well as in romantic poetry, it is the heart that is the center and controlling mechanics of life. If… — Henry Grunwald Copy Share Image
“What could be more irrational, even if ten or fifteen persons, or even, let us suppose, a hundred, for they certainly will… — Julian the Apostate Copy Share Image
America must deal once and for all with an utterly irrational health care financing system that allows private interests to make billions… — Suzanne Gordon Copy Share Image
Science for me is very close to art. Scientific discovery is an irrational act. It's an intuition which turns out to be… — Carlo Rubbia Copy Share Image
Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action,… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth ... that they are… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
The soul may not be destroyed. The soul goes on forever. Like the number pi, it is without cessation or conclusion. Like… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
This proletarianization of the lower salaried bourgeoisie is accompanied by an excess in the opposite direction: the irrationally high pay of top… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Beware: Ignorance Protects itself. Ignorance Promotes suspicion. Suspicion Engenders fear. Fear quails, Irrational and blind, Or fear looms, Defiant and closed. Blind,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The term [Americanization] invokes the transformation of the landscape into unnatural mechanical shapes, of night into day, of speed for its own… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
When irrational terror takes to itself the fiat of moral goodness somebody has to die. ... No man lives who has not… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
It is all too easy for the liberal media to stir up the irrational hatreds of millions of people, who see themselves… — Robert Ringer Copy Share Image
In order to develop normally, a child requires progressively more complex joint activity with one or more adults who have an irrational… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
I write because, exacting as it may be to do so, it is still more difficult to refrain, and because - however… — Iris Origo Copy Share Image
It’s right to say that people fall in love. We don’t glide, slip, or stumble into it. Instead we tumble head first… — Martin Pistorius Copy Share Image
“This was my world: a world of truly irrational behavior. We spend our way into the poorhouse. We buy giant TVs and… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
I have a two-year-old who just turned three, and my four-year-old just turned five. I have the same irrational feelings taking them… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
Whenever you are in the world of the tonal, you should be an impeccable tonal; no time for irrational crap. But whenever… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Faith is not a leap in the dark; it’s the exact opposite. It’s a commitment based on evidence… It is irrational to… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
“our irrationality happens the same way, again and again. Whether we are acting as consumers, businesspeople, or policy makers, understanding how we… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
I did not agree..to having my article censored. ...The published report of the conference gives my name as a participant, but you… — John Yudkin Copy Share Image
O, mighty, divinely delimited wisdom of walls, boundaries! I is perhaps the most magnificent of all inventions. Man ceased to be a… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
The knowledge of God, the belief in God, is what I call an a-rational process. It's not rational - it doesn't proceed… — George Coyne Copy Share Image
The man who is thus outside the confines of every value-combination, and has become the exclusive representative of an individual value, is… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe--but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when… — David Byrne 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
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
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
You married Elora?” “Yes, briefly.” Oren emphasized how fleeting it had been. “We were wed because we thought it would be a… — Amanda Hocking 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
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