An exotic and irrational entertainment, which has been always combated, and always has prevailed. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
In its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all irrational reactions of the average human character. — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
I have no phobias. Phobias are irrational. My fears are rational and CAREFULLY CULTIVATED, like roses. — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
I have this irrational fear of north London - it feels like proper London, scary and fast moving. — Charlotte Ritchie Copy Share Image
Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
It's a funny thing, by the way, how people who love free markets are also quite sure that they know that investors… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women or that men are more willing to surrender their irrational beliefs.… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
“They will get it straight one day at the Sorbonne. We shall return at twilight from the lecture Pleased that the irrational… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I still had an irrational desire to do an interpretive dance about rainbows, but it was a small price to pay for… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
Rationalism is an attitude of readiness to listen to contrary arguments and to learn from experience... of admitting that "I may be… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
My clinical psychologist wife of 40 years has always had a close intellectual influence on me. When I was beginning to talk… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
It seems to be very hard for people to live with riddles or to let them live, although one would think that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
At my years, and with my disposition, or rather, constitution, one gets to care less and less for everything except downright goodfeeling.… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished! To endure,… — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
As I'm writing, I start to see connections, and themes I didn't see, and that sparks other things. So then I go… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her, and a… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The idea of some contact of Donald Trump's office with the Russians to try to find areas of common ground is not… — Angus King Copy Share Image
Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence. Though… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
The sense of Islam as a threatening Other - with Muslims depicted as fanatical, violent, lustful, irrational - develops during the colonial… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don’t mean escaping into… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Lawyers have a way of seeing that sets them apart from the rest of us. In some way this special vision makes… — Thane Rosenbaum Copy Share Image
In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die...His… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Now everything was changed. She walked about with cautious, anxious steps, staring constantly at the ground, on the lookout for things that… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
