The transfinite numbers are in a sense the new irrationalities [ ... they] stand or fall with the finite irrational numbers. — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
“Invalidating someone else is not merely disagreeing with something that the other person said. It is a process in which individuals communicate… — David M. Allen Copy Share Image
Sanity is a matter of culture and convention. If it's a crazy culture you live in, then you have to be irrational… — Margaret Millar Copy Share Image
The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The transfinite numbers are in a certain sense themselves new irrationalities and in fact in my opinion the best method of defining… — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
Forced to define 'irrational subconscious,' I would say that it is a small padded room inside all of us, where the only… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Conclusion: from the moment the economic is there for something else, there is no point making endless critiques of it or analysing… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Pathological Stubbornness and Irrational Optimism – Lessons I’ve learned on my entrepreneurial journey — Ruth Kelly Copy Share Image
Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
Survival should be the number one goal, states can have all sorts of goals that are deeply immoral or unethical. But that… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
A person who believes that Elvis is still alive is very unlikely to get promoted to a position of great power and… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Congress remains in total denial as our liberties are rapidly fading before our eyes. The process is propelled by unwarranted fear and… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Science for me is very close to art. Scientific discovery is an irrational act. It's an intuition which turns out to be… — Carlo Rubbia Copy Share Image
If you want to - if you want to engage in conspiracy theories that the White House and the vice president intended… — Kate O'Beirne Copy Share Image
And then there is Pythagoras. The legend is that the founder of theoretical mathematics was so outraged when one of his students,… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“The term [Americanization] invokes the transformation of the landscape into unnatural mechanical shapes, of night into day, of speed for its own… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
In order to develop normally, a child requires progressively more complex joint activity with one or more adults who have an irrational… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
Marx saw that capitalism is a wasteful, irrational system, a system which controls us when we should be controlling it. That insight… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
When you're in the throes of this romantic love, it's overwhelming - you're out of control, you're irrational, you're going to the… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic. — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
