The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
The process of inner self-examination brings about a knowledge that is as rigorous and supported by evidence as anything science has to… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
All "public interest' legislation (and any distribution of money taken by force from some men for the unearned benefit of others) comes… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
At my years, and with my disposition, or rather, constitution, one gets to care less and less for everything except downright goodfeeling.… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
One should believe only what can be chosen to be true or just. Irrational (or unjustified) beliefs should be avoided because they… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
There are irrational fears. If you see a woman wearing a hijab and fear is your first thought, something's really wrong. — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
Art is magic, not logic. This craze for the logical spirit in irrational shape is part of the present harmful mania for… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Most illogical Irrational nature of our womanhood, That blushes one way, feels another way, And prays, perhaps another! — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
This 'oh let's hug it out' without taking any responsibility is exactly the problem. ... We are not silly irrational little girls.… — Sarah Lacy Copy Share Image
Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities. — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“Think about the precedents you are setting. It's the Left that runs the world on reckless emotionalism. Don't join.” — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
When I'm crossing the street, I look both ways and I process the information rationally because if I make a mistake I… — Jason Brennan Copy Share Image
So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
...Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers are extreme aberrants with… — Don Kates Copy Share Image
It is economically irrational to exclude large environmental costs from the balance sheets of the producers and the consumers. You are only… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
How do you know all this? Jeez, Tory, you’re a kid. Act like it. (Geary) (Tory reached out and punched her on… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
On scientific grounds this big bang assumption is much less the palatable of the two. For it is an irrational process that… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
Anger and depression are not diseases or dysfunctions or anomalies; they are perfectly rational responses to the myriad avoidable disappointments that begin… — Shalom Auslander Copy Share Image
It would be unwise to condemn as irrational the practice of devouring the heart and liver of an adversary while yet warm.… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
The atheist realizes that there must not only be an acceptance of his right to hold his opinion, but that ultimately his… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
It’s right to say that people fall in love. We don’t glide, slip, or stumble into it. Instead we tumble head first… — Martin Pistorius Copy Share Image
Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
