The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die...… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Faeries are not fantasy, but a connection to reality. Faeries are irrational, poetic, absurd, and very, very wise. Faeries say there is… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
Fox opposes a Syria peace plan because its modus operandi is to foment dissent in the form of a relentless and irrational… — Jon Stewart 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
In all the universe, your mother is the only thing that truly scares me, especially where you’re concerned. I don’t ever want… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Artists are people who are subject to irrational convictions of the sacred. Baudelaire said that an artist is a child who has… — Peter Schjeldahl 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
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
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
“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
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
True love, it's like an illness. I never understood it before. In books and plays. Poems. I never understood what drove otherwise… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
When you find yourself reluctant to sit on a chair because it had unexpectedly collapsed in the past you might shake your… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
“Love is irrational. Nonsensical. Makes you feel things that seem wildly inappropriate when you consider the surrounding circumstances. And yet you shouldn't… — Alyson Noel 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
The traits the word 'childish' addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this age-discriminatory word when it comes… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
Mark the babe not long accustomed to this breathing world; One that hath barely learned to shape a smile, though yet irrational… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I'm not sure most of the people that get caught up in the middle of a bubble can be described as irrational.… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
“In my short stay I realized that without a deep understanding of human psychology, without the acceptance that we are all crazy,… — Chris Voss Copy Share Image
A person who believes that Elvis is still alive is very unlikely to get promoted to a position of great power and… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy - and it does not… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
If you want to - if you want to engage in conspiracy theories that the White House and the vice president intended… — Kate O'Beirne Copy Share Image
Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A rationalist is simply someone for whom it is more important to learn than to be proved right; someone who is willing… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
If worldviews or metanarratives can be compared to lenses, which of them brings things into the sharpest focus? This is not an… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
“The irrational fear gene lives on in us all. It’s irritating, but these things need to be handled the same way as… — Jason Arnopp Copy Share Image
I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
Never think that wars are irrational catastrophes: they happen when wrong ways of thinking and living bring about intolerable situations ... the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
It has been said that the myth is a public dream, dreams are private myths. Unfortunately we give our mythic side scant… — Mary Zimmerman Copy Share Image
Capitalism may even be identical with the restraint, or at least a rational tempering, of this irrational impulse. But capitalism is identical… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
I've long believed that anybody who is in the act of remembering childhood is a poet, because you're thinking back on times… — Guy Maddin 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
