Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of men and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd. — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“I’ve realized now that hope almost never goes together with reason. It’s something quite irrational and instinctive.” — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. — Cyril Connolly 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
Bad news drives out good news. The irrational is more controversial than the rational. Concurrence can no longer compete with dissent. One… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
“Because it is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational. The more cultivated a person is, the more intelligent, the more… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas. Like mass hysteria. Or a tune that gets into your head that… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Souls are punished when they have gone forth from the body, some wandering among us, some going to hot or cold places… — Sallust Copy Share Image
He was making her feel small and absurdly petulant and, worse yet, she suspected he was right. She always suspected he was… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 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
The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes.… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
[Trump's worldview states] that, for example, women are incompetent as compared to men in business settings. That women in general are intellectually… — Jennifer Pozner 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
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
Life, from beginning to end, is fear. Yes, it is pain, yes, it is desire, but more than anything it is fear;… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
If, as I believe, the ends of men are many, and not all of them are in principle compatible with each other,… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
In the background lurks the scourge of international terrorism. There are people exercising power in a few countries and leading political factions… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“Here I am, suspending all logic and reason to walk away from life as I know it to set off on a… — Jay Michael Copy Share Image
No, but I've never been one for wise ideas," he says. "I believe in irrational, fleeting decisions that keep life interesting. And… — Jessica Sorensen Copy Share Image
It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation… — William Kirby 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
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
The creative individual not only respects the irrational in himself, but also courts the most promising source of novelty in his own… — Frank Barron Copy Share Image
Anthropocentrism is simply irrational. And yet this is the thrust of much of our traditional religious thought and teaching, particularly in the… — Russell E. Train Copy Share Image
Who is more irrational, the guy who believes in a God he can't see, or a guy who's offended by a God… — Brad Stine 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
When I photograph, I try to use my instincts as much as possible. It is when pictures are unconsidered and irrational that… — Jacob Aue Sobol Copy Share Image
I like irrational things. I like scenarios where I can think, 'It would be great if at this point we could do… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
I don't have any irrational fears. Obviously, if I was walking through the outback, and I saw a snake, I wouldn't go… — Ophelia Lovibond Copy Share Image
Love is an irrational force, making humans do all sorts of strange and wonderful things like write poetry and take up the… — Amy Dickinson Copy Share Image
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular… — William James Copy Share Image
I have an irrational fear that something bad is going to happen to me when I'm drinking out of a water fountain.… — Andrew Luck Copy Share Image
The ... irrational fear of communism is being deliberately used in many quarters to blind us to our real problems. — Helen Gahagan Douglas Copy Share Image
Building a company is basically taking all the irrational people you know... Putting them in one building and then living with them… — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
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