In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“...the irrational will have its say, perhaps because 'irrational' is the wrong word for it.” — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
“You two are well matched. Both stubborn and irrational when it comes to each other.” — Laurann Dohner Copy Share Image
There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is one thing to obey a government order. It is quite another to succumb to resurrected irrational fears, especially of 'the… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
For some reason I've always had an irrational love for New York. There's no reason that you would necessarily like it on… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I'm quite a rational person, but I'm drawn to the irrational. I love coincidences, and I like to question that in fiction:… — Lisa Tuttle Copy Share Image
Any fear associated with giving to God's kingdom is irrational. It's on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
God created the first pair equal in rights, possessions, and authority. He bequeathed the earth to them as a joint inheritance; gave… — Antoinette Brown Blackwell Copy Share Image
“Your realm is an insane place. In Volaria, no-one goes hungry, slaves are no use when they starve. Those freeborn too lazy… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
The problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy - and it does not… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
A person who believes that Elvis is still alive is very unlikely to get promoted to a position of great power and… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“In my short stay I realized that without a deep understanding of human psychology, without the acceptance that we are all crazy,… — Chris Voss Copy Share Image
I'm not sure most of the people that get caught up in the middle of a bubble can be described as irrational.… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
A rationalist is simply someone for whom it is more important to learn than to be proved right; someone who is willing… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
If you want to - if you want to engage in conspiracy theories that the White House and the vice president intended… — Kate O'Beirne Copy Share Image
Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“It's a bit like sympathetic magic in a way: the usual Western presumption that 'primitive' rituals mimic what they desire to achieve--that… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
You tell them what a happy ending consists of, which is always individual success. You tell them that nothing irrational exists in… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc... But… — Abraham Robinson Copy Share Image
“Love, commitment, it's not rational. It doesn't follow a set of rules. It doesn't care about race, gender, education, time, what's rational… — Vicktor Alexander Copy Share Image
Post-Modern space is historically specific, rooted in conventions, unlimited or ambiguous in zoning and irrational or transformational in its relation of parts… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
To suppose universal laws of nature capable of being apprehended by the mind and yet having no reason for their special forms,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Anytime that is ‘betwixt and between’ or transitional is the faeries’ favorite time. They inhabit transitional spaces: the bottom of the garden,… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
I have irrational fears, and they all go back to losing my father as a kid. I've never gotten over it. — Tim Allen Copy Share Image
To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division. — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Only in the irrational and unknown direction can we come to wisdom again — Jack Parsons Copy Share Image
