Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values? — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I am a reasonable and sane functionalist tempered by irrational frivolity. — Alexander Girard Copy Share Image
Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
When people change their irrational beliefs to undogmatic flexible preferences, they become less disturbed. — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
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
I didn't ask you to catch me!" "You're so delightful when you're irrational. Of course I'm going to catch you." He slid… — Shana Abe Copy Share Image
Who would seriously want to listen to anything emanating from a quasi-chimpanzee's irrational bundle of mental accidents and energies? — David A. Noebel Copy Share Image
Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Many students of dreams, from Plato to [Sigmund] Freud, hold that the sleeping person,deprived of contact with the outside world, regresses temporarily… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting. — Virginia Satir 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
The more one studies paleontology, the more certain one becomes that evolution is based upon faith alone; exactly the same sort of… — Louis T. Moore Copy Share Image
“That isn’t going to happen,” he told her. “It’s going to be all right” “Fool,” Kitai scoffed gently. “You do not know… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I've always had an irrational fear - it's really not an irrational fear, I think - whenever I've been standing at a… — Steve Rushin 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
If the transmigration of a soul takes place into a rational being, it simply becomes the soul of that body. But if… — Sallust Copy Share Image
Trading has taught me not to take the conventional wisdom for granted. What money I made in trading is testimony to the… — Richard Dennis Copy Share Image
Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
...Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers are extreme aberrants with… — Don Kates 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
The modern habit of saying "This is my opinion, but I may be wrong" is entirely irrational. If I say that it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The process of inner self-examination brings about a knowledge that is as rigorous and supported by evidence as anything science has to… — Jacob Needleman 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
It is irrational to charge high prices for socially valuable innovations as this guarantees that they will be underutilized. It is much… — Thomas Pogge 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
I steal into their dreams," he said. "I steal into their most shameful thoughts, I'm in every shiver, every spasm of their… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
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