“How does one answer a question that, in its very formulation, defies belief?” — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
Ill send myself in irrational spirals about things I have no control over, like death. — Florence And The Machine Copy Share Image
Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Your first company is like your first baby.You have this unconditional, irrational love. — Julia Hartz Copy Share Image
Every discovery contains an irrational element or a creative intuition. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Most of the time it is a good job and a good honour to fight against people's values, because most of the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
As long as men are free to speak, a small, rational minority will always prevail over an irrational majority. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“When you deal with irrational animals, with things and circumstances, be generous and straightforward. You are rational; they are not.” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Anger and depression are not diseases or dysfunctions or anomalies; they are perfectly rational responses to the myriad avoidable disappointments that begin… — Shalom Auslander Copy Share Image
The very ritual practices that the New Atheists dismiss as costly, inefficient and irrational turn out to be a solution to one… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
What good your beautiful proof on the transcendence of Pi: Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist? — Leopold Kronecker Copy Share Image
Souls are punished when they have gone forth from the body, some wandering among us, some going to hot or cold places… — Sallust Copy Share Image
He was making her feel small and absurdly petulant and, worse yet, she suspected he was right. She always suspected he was… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Artists are people who are subject to irrational convictions of the sacred. Baudelaire said that an artist is a child who has… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
In all the universe, your mother is the only thing that truly scares me, especially where you’re concerned. I don’t ever want… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Ridiculous as our market volatility might seem to an intelligent Martian, it is our reality and everyone loves to trot out the… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
Bad news drives out good news. The irrational is more controversial than the rational. Concurrence can no longer compete with dissent. One… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when… — Taylor Hanson Copy Share Image
So Marxism, Freudianism: any one of these things I think is an irrational cult. They're theology, so they're whatever you think of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The people who are abroad are all those that have no religion, neither one based on speculation nor one received by tradition.… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
People are terrified of other people or difficult projects because they tell themselves that they could fail or be rejected. Failure can… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
To judge the appearances we receive of things, we should need a judicatory instrument; to verify this instrument, we should need a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Ultimately, love is only possible for humans insofar as they can achieve some comprehension of their place and their duties and their… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Everest is regarded as one of, if not the most challenging of human conquests. I was passionate about climbing and a great… — Omar Samra Copy Share Image
One thing we may be sure of, however: For the believer all pain has meaning; all adversity is profitable. There is no… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image