They did it for love, and sometimes love makes us do the irrational .. even the inexcusable. — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
[D]rawing up 'secret war plans' for a possible attack on Iraq wasn't irrational. The low-level war against Saddam was 12 years old,… — John Leo Copy Share Image
There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The ending of irrational fantasies is always going to come as a rude jolt. — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
We'll tell our secrets to the dark"-Adam "Okay"-Mia "So let's hear another of your irrational fears"-Adam "I'm scared of losing you"-Mia "I… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Which meant there was quite a lot of competitiveness about it, with everybody wanting to beat not only cancer itself, but also… — John Green Copy Share Image
This proletarianization of the lower salaried bourgeoisie is accompanied by an excess in the opposite direction: the irrationally high pay of top… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Ridiculous as our market volatility might seem to an intelligent Martian, it is our reality and everyone loves to trot out the… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
The being we call god is merely a pawn working for a powerful and rational force in some far-off galaxy. This force… — Nick Yee Copy Share Image
To suppose universal laws of nature capable of being apprehended by the mind and yet having no reason for their special forms,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
When I stand on the edge of a cliff or right at the edge of a building or something, it's one of… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing,… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
People always ask us women about how we balance our lives. Rarely do they ever ask men this but we are asked… — Annette Bening 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
It's not an irrational decision, I've been thinking about this for quite a while and maybe it'll be good for me [on… — Ronnie O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The techniques of kitsch, which are based on imitation, are rational and operate according to formulas; the remain rational even when their… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
My pictures are about everyday life combined with theatrical effect. I want them to feel outside of time, to take something routine… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
One of the greatest challenges facing civilization in the twenty-first century is for human beings to learn to speak about their deepest… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
In the '90s it was irrational exuberance. Now it may be irrational doom and gloom. — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Naturally, our own irrational demands strike us as having the force of needs, while other people's needs strike us as capricious indulgences. — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image