reasonable people often have difficulty anticipating…

There is no question but that nominally religious scientists like Francis Collins and Kenneth R. Miller are doing lasting harm to our discourse by…

— Sam Harris

The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others…

— Noam Chomsky

But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to…

— Thomas Paine

“All at once, because life’s too short and it’s always like magic when you find a good thing. All at once, because I’m much…

— Nessie Q

A miracle entails a degree of irrationality-not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.

— Emmanuel Levinas

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 experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.

— Max Weber

“Irrationality is part of everyday rationale”

— Elif Shafak

Power doesn't corrupt. It's neutral. Someone always wants to corrupt power. It's the way a shotgun is not a deadly weapon until someone chooses…

— Steve Ditko

The idea of Jewish settlements under Palestinian sovereignty, as was suggested by someone in the Prime Minister's office, is very dangerous and reflects an…

— Naftali Bennett

I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality…

— Richard Dawkins

Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.

— Paul Eldridge

What a mathematical proof actually does is show that certain conclusions, such as the irrationality of , follow from certain premises, such as the…

— Timothy Gowers

An engineer cannot participate in irrationality ...

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There is not a more disgusting spectacle under the sun than our subserviency to British criticism. It is disgusting, first, because it is truckling,…

— Edgar Allan Poe