O, mighty, divinely delimited wisdom of walls, boundaries! I is perhaps the most magnificent of all inventions. Man ceased to be a… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I'm a Taurus, which sounds like the name of a pickup truck. I'd prefer to be born under the sign of the… — Elliot Perlman 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
Beginning in the 1960s, many studies showed that people who hold what we call irrational beliefs are significantly more disturbed than when… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
The soul consists of two parts, one irrational and the other capable of reason. (Whether these two parts are really distinct in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Most men appear to think that the art of despotic government is statesmanship, and what men affirm to be unjust and inexpedient… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Souls that have lived in virtue are in general happy, and when separated from the irrational part of their nature, and made… — Sallust Copy Share Image
Who is more irrational, the guy who believes in a God he can't see, or a guy who's offended by a God… — Brad Stine Copy Share Image
In its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all irrational reactions of the average human character. — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as… — David Edward Copy Share Image
Dare to be irrational! - keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The disappearance of theology from the life of the Church, and the orchestration of that disappearance by some of its leaders, is… — David F. Wells Copy Share Image
I have this irrational fear of north London - it feels like proper London, scary and fast moving. — Charlotte Ritchie Copy Share Image
Secrets are inherently selfish. The longer you keep them, the harder it is to put yourself in other people's shoes about them… — James Scott Copy Share Image
So Marxism, Freudianism: any one of these things I think is an irrational cult. They're theology, so they're whatever you think of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.” — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Our enemies may be irrational, even outright insane, driven by nationalism, religion, ethnicity or ideology. They do not fear the United States… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood? — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
I knew my affection for the Philippines was equally as telling: a democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational… — Alex Garland 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
The problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy - and it does not… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
