The ending of irrational fantasies is always going to come as a rude jolt. — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I have no prejudices: all my irrational hatreds are based on solid evidence. — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
Every discovery contains an irrational element or a creative intuition. — Karl Popper 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
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
“No churchmen, I notice. Of course not. What use have they for a world without irrational fear?” — Jonathan L. Howard Copy Share Image
Love is irrational, I reminded myself. The more you loved someone, the less sense anything made. — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“We are human, we are irrational, we have foibles, and the power of the mind over the body is greater than anything… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
“Don't be in temper, to leave so quickly, that I may be dying. But all too soon, the leaves and debris will… — Anthony Liccione 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
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
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
“Because it is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational. The more cultivated a person is, the more intelligent, the more… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Artists are people who are subject to irrational convictions of the sacred. Baudelaire said that an artist is a child who has… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
My pictures are about everyday life combined with theatrical effect. I want them to feel outside of time, to take something routine… — Gregory Crewdson 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
Any irrational fears?no, i'm quite a rationalist. i'm not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities… — Benedict Cumberbatch 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
Souls are punished when they have gone forth from the body, some wandering among us, some going to hot or cold places… — Sallust Copy Share Image
We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas. Like mass hysteria. Or a tune that gets into your head that… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Ridiculous as our market volatility might seem to an intelligent Martian, it is our reality and everyone loves to trot out the… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
Bad news drives out good news. The irrational is more controversial than the rational. Concurrence can no longer compete with dissent. One… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
Mark the babe not long accustomed to this breathing world; One that hath barely learned to shape a smile, though yet irrational… — William Wordsworth 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
We have this highly irrational system of incentivizing innovation for clean and green technologies, where we allow the innovator to have a… — Thomas Pogge 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
“There is nothing illogical in the desire of the "have-nots" to appropriate the wealth of the "haves"; in fact, it is part… — J.F.C. Fuller 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
“Here I am, suspending all logic and reason to walk away from life as I know it to set off on a… — Jay Michael Copy Share Image
“Here, television succeeded in completing a fantastic operation of directed consensus building, a real power grab, an OPA [Tender offer] to the… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“Irrational expectations are at the root of most human suffering.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
War is an irrational, counter-productive way to handle conflicts. — Lawrence S. Wittner Copy Share Image