Power beyond reason created a lasting irrationality.

“Irrationality is part of everyday rationale”

— Elif Shafak

The point is that religion puts a value on irrationality, which makes it the perfect tool for promoting irrational beliefs like misogyny. Other ideologies…

— Amanda Marcotte

The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.

— Francis Bacon

Most specifically, irrationality means that rational systems are unreasonable systems. By that I mean that they deny the basic humanity, the human reason, of…

— George Ritzer

Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight altruism? These…

— Ayn Rand

We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality.

— Anonymous

We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable…

— Aldous Huxley

My clinical psychologist wife of 40 years has always had a close intellectual influence on me. When I was beginning to talk openly in…

— Robert J. Shiller

Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of…

— Aldous Huxley

I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what…

— Rita Mae Brown

“our irrationality happens the same way, again and again. Whether we are acting as consumers, businesspeople, or policy makers, understanding how we are predictably…

— Dan Ariely

“The irrationality of a thing is not an argument against its existence, rather, a condition of it,” he murmured, securing the buttons at her…

— Rebecca Zanetti

If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.

— Edward Abbey

When you find yourself reluctant to sit on a chair because it had unexpectedly collapsed in the past you might shake your head and…

— Nomy Arpaly

“How does one answer a question that, in its very formulation, defies belief?”

— Ryan Gelpke