Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
There is nothing quite so gentle, deep, and irrational as running--and nothing quite so savage, so wild. — Bernd Heinrich Copy Share Image
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
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
I have no phobias. Phobias are irrational. My fears are rational and CAREFULLY CULTIVATED, like roses. — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
If one's patriotism is merely instinctive it is irrational and irresponsible, and consequently a danger to one's country. — Paul Monroe Copy Share Image
“Think about the precedents you are setting. It's the Left that runs the world on reckless emotionalism. Don't join.” — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
The shape that poems make in the mind is an echo of something powerful in the cosmos. I do believe that, and… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I'm embarrassed to admit that I'm still scared of the dark. I have to have a light on all night. It's completely… — Louise Nurding Copy Share Image
Fear is ugly because it makes you irrational. Fear makes you jump to conclusions. Fear makes you reactionary. — David Heinemeier Hansson Copy Share Image
Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable. — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
Randian heroes come off as metaphors for Jews because they are beset by irrational forces that try to bar them from the… — Florence King Copy Share Image
“If I had to describe what love meant, really, not in the abstract or the sentimental or the way I'd imagined it… — Jill Bialosky Copy Share Image
Superstition is the irrational belief that an object or behavior has the power to influence an outcome, when there's no logical connection… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or… — Ron Silver Copy Share Image
A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
In fact a man in love or one consumed with hatred creates symbols for himself, as a superstitious man does, from a… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
I studied law before I became a filmmaker, and I actually have a great belief in the justice system and the rule… — Nick Broomfield Copy Share Image
When I'm crossing the street, I look both ways and I process the information rationally because if I make a mistake I… — Jason Brennan Copy Share Image
How do you know all this? Jeez, Tory, you’re a kid. Act like it. (Geary) (Tory reached out and punched her on… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc... But… — Abraham Robinson Copy Share Image
We must therefore turn to history for enlightenment; here we find that none of the proclaimed anarchist groups correspond to the libertarian… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Here was the astounding fact: the race did go forward; the race did achieve; and in every way the race grew better.… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
“It's a bit like sympathetic magic in a way: the usual Western presumption that 'primitive' rituals mimic what they desire to achieve--that… — David Byrne 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
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
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
