“There was nothing to fear. Her fear was of the unknown, it was irrational.” — Peter Cawdron Copy Share Image
To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country. — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
It was futile to attack with reason the stout wall of irrational feelings that, as is known, is the stuff of which… — Milan Kundera 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
But jealousy... it's a strange thing. So much more powerful then I would have thought. And irrational! — Edward Cullen Copy Share Image
“When you deal with irrational animals, with things and circumstances, be generous and straightforward. You are rational; they are not.” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group. — Erich Fromm 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
Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
If you deeply appreciate and love what creative people do and how they think, which is usually in unpredictable and irrational ways,… — Bernard Arnault Copy Share Image
“Of course you are. Emotions are totally irrational half the time." Her ice blue eyes lock onto me. "But you have full… — Kelley York Copy Share Image
“The irrationality of a thing is not an argument against its existence, rather, a condition of it,” he murmured, securing the buttons… — Rebecca Zanetti Copy Share Image
The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
It's interesting sometimes to read about the last days of past civilizations. It's hard not to notice during these readings that those… — David Horowitz 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
The truth is that no one who hasn't actually experienced the senseless chaos and violence of combat can possibly understand it, but… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
My greatest personal mistake is ever to allow a word or moment that “doesn’t count,” i.e., that I do not refer to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world.… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
It is a strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills.… — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
“One day Plapa told us about irrational numbers, and, I remember, I cried, banged my fists on the table, and screamed, "I… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Beware of becoming too sure of your beliefs, because you run the risk of dissociation, or losing touch with parts of yourself.… — Laurence Galian Copy Share Image
“Never ascribe to irrational benevolence what selfishness will explain.” — Yoon Ha Lee Copy Share Image