Awakening Quote by A. N. Wilson

“The irrational is the impossible; it is that which contradicts the facts of reality; facts cannot be altered by a wish, but they can…

— Ayn Rand

“So we invent reasons for the unreasonable. We are rationalists of the irrational. It”

— Joyce Carol Oates

We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality.

— Anonymous

“Reality can be only partially attacked by logic.”

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

“A mind funded by logic can not be corrupted.”

— Axel Voigtländer

A fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes a myth…

— Paulo Freire

The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.

— Will Durant

“the irrational invalidates any meaning attached to it.”

— Hermann Broch

“Logic, when used correctly and by an intellect that is not corrupted by the lower passions, may lead to one to the Transcendent itself.”

— Osman Bakar

“Unless all that we take to be knowledge is an illusion, we must hold that in thinking we are not reading rationality into an…

— Mary Midgley

“When we look at the frailties of the human mind and the apparent disinterest by the multitude to do the very hard work of…

— Brian Goedken

“Rationalizing is not a tool for penetration of reality but a post-factum attempt to harmonize one's own wishes with existing reality.”

— Erich Fromm