“your irrational range true suffering as flamboyance as starving carnivore as disappearance” — Will Alexander Copy Share Image
I have this irrational fear of north London - it feels like proper London, scary and fast moving. — Charlotte Ritchie Copy Share Image
To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Only in the irrational and unknown direction can we come to wisdom again — Jack Parsons Copy Share Image
Science fiction has always had a dark side. There has been a touch of the irrational and absurd in the genre from… — Douglas Lain Copy Share Image
Kestilan?" There was that name again. Oliver fought down an irrational surge of jealousy for this mysterious being who took up so… — Jessica Day George Copy Share Image
If anyone gets in my way when I'm making a picture, I become irrational. I'm never sure what I am going to… — Margaret Bourke-White Copy Share Image
It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? A lot of times, it's… — Victoria Pratt Copy Share Image
Would a watermelon in the midst of a chase sequence not be, in its own organic way, emblematic of our entire misunderstood… — W. D. Richter Copy Share Image
“And so, in that Greek letter that looks like a shack with a corrugated tin roof, in that elusive, irrational number with… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.” — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
A lot of people are just really confused by me; they don’t know what to think of me, so they try to… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
It is slightly chilling to realize there are rational, functional people up there employed to spot, nurture, and exploit those down here… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Noah heeded God’s command to build an ark…that they might be saved from the floodwaters. Yet there was no evidence of rain… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
[T]he only real moral crime that one man can commit against another is the attempt to create, by his words or actions,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power,… — River Phoenix Copy Share Image
Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
I am a child of the Enlightenment. I think irrational belief is a dangerous phenomenon, and I try to consciously avoid irrational… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence. Though… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
For the first time in history, men and women are seriously exploring the possibilities of relationships based on separateness rather than togetherness.… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
It would be impossible to accept naturalism itself if we really and consistently believed naturalism. For naturalism is a system of thought.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don’t mean escaping into… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The sense of Islam as a threatening Other - with Muslims depicted as fanatical, violent, lustful, irrational - develops during the colonial… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division. — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“Never ascribe to irrational benevolence what selfishness will explain.” — Yoon Ha Lee Copy Share Image
“The love of a foster mother for her charge appears absolutely irrational.” — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image