Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
I'm going full circle here and be totally irrational and wish everyone a Happy Pi Day! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They did it for love, and sometimes love makes us do the irrational .. even the inexcusable. — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Logic and reason have no place in matters of the heart, love isn't rational. — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
Most specifically, irrationality means that rational systems are unreasonable systems. By that I mean that they deny the basic humanity, the human… — George Ritzer Copy Share Image
“steam-tactics saga illustrates that (4) Rationalism, unlike empiricism, tends to assume an accretion of vested interests.” — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon Copy Share Image
Faith is not a blind, irrational conviction. In order to believe, we must know what we believe, and the grounds on which… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The very day the world finds enough reason not to argue reasonably again, is the very day we all cease to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Behind every rational and irrational force in human society there is a social mechanism which determines where it is to appear and… — Karl Mannheim Copy Share Image
Why will someone sell you a dollar for 50 cents? Because in the short run, people are irrational on both the optimistic… — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
Homophobia: The irrational fear the three fags will break into your house and redecorate it against your will. — Tom Ammiano Copy Share Image
“He twisted at the waist and stretched out on his side. “You’re a bit crazy. You throw apples in people’s faces when… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
While reasons are provided by the facts,...rationality...depends instead on our beliefs. [...] [I]f I believe falsely that my hotel is on fire,… — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
What we need to understand is, one, that there are market failures; and two, that there are things like asset bubbles and… — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
What you really are afraid of is that you're competing against somebody who is rich and irrational. I mean, it used to… — John C. Malone Copy Share Image
It was odd, she thought, how if one was alone, one leant to inanimate things; trees, streams, flowers; felt they expressed one;… — Virginia Woolf 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
Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo 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
To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
One of the things I did during my 17 years as a psychiatric social worker was go around and find people with… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
I think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world.… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“There is nothing illogical in the desire of the "have-nots" to appropriate the wealth of the "haves"; in fact, it is part… — J.F.C. Fuller Copy Share Image
The truth is that no one who hasn't actually experienced the senseless chaos and violence of combat can possibly understand it, but… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
We have this highly irrational system of incentivizing innovation for clean and green technologies, where we allow the innovator to have a… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
But jealousy... it's a strange thing. So much more powerful then I would have thought. And irrational! — Edward Cullen Copy Share Image
I have no prejudices: all my irrational hatreds are based on solid evidence. — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country. — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
Excessive or irrational schedules are probably the single most destructive influence in all of software — Capers Jones Copy Share Image
It is sometimes rational to do what is wrong, and sometimes irrational to do what is right — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
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