The claim is also sometimes made that science is as arbitrary or irrational as all other claims to knowledge, or that reason… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when… — Taylor Hanson Copy Share Image
Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices. — Sargent Shriver Copy Share Image
In a way, both the U.S. media and those wacky rioters in the Afghan-Pakistani hinterlands are very similar, two highly parochial and… — Mark Steyn 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
You tell them what a happy ending consists of, which is always individual success. You tell them that nothing irrational exists in… — Scarlett Thomas 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
Trump was the logical outcome of the Republican's irrational, racialized backlash to Obama that had utterly come to dominate the party's thinking. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
I write because, exacting as it may be to do so, it is still more difficult to refrain, and because - however… — Iris Origo 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
To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don’t mean escaping into… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Reason ... contradicts the established order of men and things on behalf of existing societal forces that reveal the irrational character of… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
I knew all the time I was going to get through the war. It was completely irrational, a silly idea, but I… — Abraham Pais 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
It was odd, she thought, how if one was alone, one leant to inanimate things; trees, streams, flowers; felt they expressed one;… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Here was the astounding fact: the race did go forward; the race did achieve; and in every way the race grew better.… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
If anyone gets in my way when I'm making a picture, I become irrational. I'm never sure what I am going to… — Margaret Bourke-White 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
This is a record I ended up having to make to get on to the next stage of my life. What I… — Luke Haines Copy Share Image
I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
