It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
I have irrational fears, and they all go back to losing my father as a kid. I've never gotten over it. — Tim Allen Copy Share Image
To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“The love of a foster mother for her charge appears absolutely irrational.” — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Never ascribe to irrational benevolence what selfishness will explain.” — Yoon Ha Lee Copy Share Image
When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division. — Al Gore 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
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
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
“If you’re afraid of something, face it. Fear is irrational. The only way to conquer your fear is to put yourself next… — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will… — Nabeshima Naoshige 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
The very ritual practices that the New Atheists dismiss as costly, inefficient and irrational turn out to be a solution to one… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I hated it when I was right, but I always hated it when someone else was. Especially when their being right… — Lisa Shearin Copy Share Image
People are irrational. What I want to do is let's take the irrational aspects out of it and let's just break this… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Most societies wipe themselves out and it's interesting to read about the last days of past civilizations. You'll note that the last… — Rush Limbaugh 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
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
“Conspiracy adepts love story-tellers who want to exorcise their fear, mixing rational and irrational elements to construct a plausible narrative for people… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I read the Bible when I was 12 while studying for my bar mitzvah. I was also reading a lot of Dilbert… — Simon Rich 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
A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone's orders, directives, or controls;… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When...did it become irrational to dislike religion, any religion, even to dislike it vehemently? When did reason get redescribed as unreason? When… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Since the Greeks, Western man has believed that Being, all Being, is intelligible, that there is a reason for everythingand that the… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by nature, notice the steadily more… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Most men appear to think that the art of despotic government is statesmanship, and what men affirm to be unjust and inexpedient… — Aristotle 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
“In the search for meaning we must not forget that the gods (or God, for that matter) are a concept of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the search for character and commitment, we must rid ourselves of our inherited, even cherished biases and prejudices. Character, ability and… — J. Irwin Miller Copy Share Image
To me this question whether liberty is a good or a bad thing appears as irrational as the question whether fire is… — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
Only in the irrational and unknown direction can we come to wisdom again — Jack Parsons Copy Share Image
In the '90s it was irrational exuberance. Now it may be irrational doom and gloom. — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
People will assign irrational importance to almost anything in quotes on top of a pleasant image — Colin Fletcher Copy Share Image
Humans were eventually irrational creatures gifted with the power of rationality. — L.E. Modesitt Jr Copy Share Image
As Hegel well knew, the ascent of reason has never followed a straight line. — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image