Pathological Stubbornness and Irrational Optimism – Lessons I’ve learned on my entrepreneurial journey — Ruth Kelly Copy Share Image
Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The wind shifts like this: Like a human without illusions, Who still feels irrational things within her. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Love is irrational, I reminded myself. The more you loved someone, the less sense anything made. — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
“No churchmen, I notice. Of course not. What use have they for a world without irrational fear?” — Jonathan L. Howard Copy Share Image
The ending of irrational fantasies is always going to come as a rude jolt. — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
“There was nothing to fear. Her fear was of the unknown, it was irrational.” — Peter Cawdron Copy Share Image
Unreasonable," "unrealistic," and "impractical" are all words used to marginalize a person or idea that fails to conform with conventionally expected standards. — Chris Guillebeau Copy Share Image
“It may seem odd to say that the men who made the myths disliked the irrational and had a love for facts;… — Edith Hamilton Mythology Copy Share Image
“Fear is something akin to catching a mouse in a bear trap. We mistakenly thought that the thing that we were trying… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him… — Criss Jami 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
It seems like topsy-turvyland to make reason serve the irrational. Yet that is just what it has always done, and ought always… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The soul consists of two parts, one irrational and the other capable of reason. (Whether these two parts are really distinct in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Fear of death is understandable, being that we are all going to die, but fear of life and suffering is more of… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
What matters is that they are curious about life, energy, truth, and themselves and that they haven't sold out to the establishment… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
... there is an irrational, cultish tendency in many intellectual movements, and Objectivism, alas, is no exception. Ayn Rand's personal obsession with… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
If the spiritual values of human existence at its highest term of development and achievement do not endure, amidst all the changes… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
Magic is a two-way process: you use it to change yourself and in return, it changes you. Letting yourself enter a magical… — Phil Hine Copy Share Image
“In case you’re short on definitions, here’s one. Insanity: ‘Destroying the very things that sustain us.’ And if we’re so short-sighted so… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
While the apostles of the new so-called "behavioral" theory present ample evidence of how often human beings make irrational financial decisions, it… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
For those of you who are seeing the spiritual life, I recommend these four daily practices: Spend time alone each day in… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
It began with one act of madness, and it ended with another. John Brown heard history's clock strike in the night and… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Ultimately, love is only possible for humans insofar as they can achieve some comprehension of their place and their duties and their… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
To judge the appearances we receive of things, we should need a judicatory instrument; to verify this instrument, we should need a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The people who are abroad are all those that have no religion, neither one based on speculation nor one received by tradition.… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
For you deal here above all with human life, and human life is sacred; no one may dare make an attempt upon… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
“The fear is so deep, so irrational, so immediate, that I can neither doubt it or examine it.” — Michael S.A. Graziano Copy Share Image
There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
War is an irrational, counter-productive way to handle conflicts. — Lawrence S. Wittner Copy Share Image
“Irrational expectations are at the root of most human suffering.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Hysteria is a chaotic and irrational emotional state caused by seeing how the world really operates. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
