We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“It’s a lot easier to see what’s irrational in another culture than it is to see it in our own.” — Cheryl Chase Copy Share Image
When people change their irrational beliefs to undogmatic flexible preferences, they become less disturbed. — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
An educated mind is practiced in the uses of reason, which inevitably leads to a skeptical outlook. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
“He likes things that make sense, and this word explains everything he knows about me. It makes perfect sense. Unless you don't… — Augusten Burroughs 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
Naturally, our own irrational demands strike us as having the force of needs, while other people's needs strike us as capricious indulgences. — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
“Black(people) hold onto their God just as the drunken man holds on to the street lamp post—for physical support only.” — Tai Solarin Copy Share Image
The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
I am never excited to play through a song all the way, because it can reveal more flaws that mean more work.… — Robert Lopez Copy Share Image
I'm a Taurus, which sounds like the name of a pickup truck. I'd prefer to be born under the sign of the… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll… — Plato Copy Share Image
It is not intuitive ease I am after, but rather a point of view which is sufficiently definite to clear up some… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Great performers require a measure of confidence that would strike many as absurd, unfounded, and downright irrational. They believe in themselves utterly,… — John Eliot 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
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
“Beware of becoming too sure of your beliefs, because you run the risk of dissociation, or losing touch with parts of yourself.… — Laurence Galian Copy Share Image
The disappearance of theology from the life of the Church, and the orchestration of that disappearance by some of its leaders, is… — David F. Wells Copy Share Image
It is a strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Nor do I think we came from monkeys, by the wayThat's another piece of garbage. What the hell's it based on? We… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency. If something is irrational, that means it won't work.… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
“The traditional arguments for the existence of God have been fairly thoroughly criticised by philosophers. But the theologian can, if he wishes,… — J.L. Mackie Copy Share Image
As for me, you wonder why I am a socialist. I'll tell you. It is because socialism is inevitable; because the present… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The real is the rational and the rational is the real. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Human relationships were so complicated and always veering in the direction of the irrational.” — Michael D. O'Brien Copy Share Image
Grace is the offer of God's ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
