The plot details of B movies are irrational: accept that people do things that are contradictory, against their own best interests, have… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
Beginning in the 1960s, many studies showed that people who hold what we call irrational beliefs are significantly more disturbed than when… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
In medicine as well as in romantic poetry, it is the heart that is the center and controlling mechanics of life. If… — Henry Grunwald Copy Share Image
America must deal once and for all with an utterly irrational health care financing system that allows private interests to make billions… — Suzanne Gordon Copy Share Image
“What could be more irrational, even if ten or fifteen persons, or even, let us suppose, a hundred, for they certainly will… — Julian the Apostate Copy Share Image
Science for me is very close to art. Scientific discovery is an irrational act. It's an intuition which turns out to be… — Carlo Rubbia Copy Share Image
You are allowed to draw lines even if your feelings are irrational. Part of the marvelous business of being an adult human… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
Fundamental assumptions in general and scientific assumptions in particular are so hard to overturn because they are based on belief. Beliefs are… — Thomas Campbell Copy Share Image
The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
While scholars are comparing and contrasting theories, debating intellectual questions, and dividing humankind into categories, the world is changed by persons with… — Grey Owl Copy Share Image
A passion is a contranatural movement of the soul or an irrational love, or an blindfold hatred toward any material thing, or… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
Many bodybuilders sell themselves short. Erroneously attributing their lack of satisfactory progress to a poverty of the requisite genetic traits, instead of… — Mike Mentzer Copy Share Image
The soul may not be destroyed. The soul goes on forever. Like the number pi, it is without cessation or conclusion. Like… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
This proletarianization of the lower salaried bourgeoisie is accompanied by an excess in the opposite direction: the irrationally high pay of top… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“The term [Americanization] invokes the transformation of the landscape into unnatural mechanical shapes, of night into day, of speed for its own… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
Beware: Ignorance Protects itself. Ignorance Promotes suspicion. Suspicion Engenders fear. Fear quails, Irrational and blind, Or fear looms, Defiant and closed. Blind,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action,… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth ... that they are… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
It is all too easy for the liberal media to stir up the irrational hatreds of millions of people, who see themselves… — Robert Ringer Copy Share Image
In order to develop normally, a child requires progressively more complex joint activity with one or more adults who have an irrational… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
I write because, exacting as it may be to do so, it is still more difficult to refrain, and because - however… — Iris Origo Copy Share Image
When irrational terror takes to itself the fiat of moral goodness somebody has to die. ... No man lives who has not… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image