Madness was only a handicap only if you couldn't control its irrationalities. — Stuart Hill Copy Share Image
I think irrationality is one of the scariest things in the world. — Marcia Gay Harden Copy Share Image
“How does one answer a question that, in its very formulation, defies belief?” — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
“Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.” — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities. — Paul Eldridge Copy Share Image
“Never argue with the surreal; there's no winning against irrationality.” — Kate Griffin Copy Share Image
...following Mrs. Roosevelt in search of irrationality was like following a burning fuse in search of an explosive. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance… — Irvin Kershner Copy Share Image
Irrationality interests me more than anything: sometimes it's very dangerous, but it can be incredibly beautiful. — John Burnside Copy Share Image
You get more irrationality within the family and in consumer behavior than you get, say, in the behavior of firms in their… — Ronald Coase Copy Share Image
The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Atheism, which people have tried to for hundreds of years as 'the ways of reason and science,' is proving to be mere… — Harun Yahya Copy Share Image
The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution. — Max Weber 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
“All at once, because life’s too short and it’s always like magic when you find a good thing. All at once, because… — Nessie Q Copy Share Image
When you find yourself reluctant to sit on a chair because it had unexpectedly collapsed in the past you might shake your… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
“The irrationality of a thing is not an argument against its existence, rather, a condition of it,” he murmured, securing the buttons… — Rebecca Zanetti Copy Share Image
The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The point is that religion puts a value on irrationality, which makes it the perfect tool for promoting irrational beliefs like misogyny.… — Amanda Marcotte Copy Share Image
I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Appeasers will always try to get the least dangerous person to bend to the most dangerous person. This is one of the… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Whereas Absurdism in Europe seemed a logical, almost inevitable response to the irrationality of war, the analogous elements that surfaced in American… — Arnold Aronson Copy Share Image
I fear that I will always be, A lonely number like root three. A three is all thats good and right, Why… — Ritesh Copy Share Image
In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
God is great"). Conversations about the practical impossibility of God's existence and the science-based irrationality of an afterlife slid seamlessly into xenophobia… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I understand, of course, that grain-fed meat is not the cause of the world hunger problem-and eating some of it doesn't directly… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
I stand four-square for reason, and object to what seems to me to be irrationality, whatever the source. If you are on… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“For også hun hadde hat sin historie, sin lille uregelmæssighet i sit liv (...)Siden sit ulykkelige forhold til en ung fremmed, en… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“I sensed that if I were ever to meet [Senator Orrin] Hatch face-to-face there would be little that we could agree upon.… — Guillermo Jimenez Copy Share Image
“If thou really believe in one God, irrationality is subset of thou logic.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
To advocate irrationality is to advocate that which is destructive to human life. — George H. Smith Copy Share Image