Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when… — Carroll Quigley 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
What frightened me was the logic of the world; in it lay the foretaste of something incalculably powerful. Its mechanism was incomprehensible,… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Indeed, my wish is quite simple: if we could learn to recognise and evade the biggest errors in our thinking - in… — Rolf Dobelli Copy Share Image
The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
Seas of blood have been shed for the sake of patriotism. One would expect the harm and irrationality of patriotism to be… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“How does one answer a question that, in its very formulation, defies belief?” — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
To advocate irrationality is to advocate that which is destructive to human life. — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
I stand four-square for reason, and object to what seems to me to be irrationality, whatever the source. If you are on… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The only factor that poses a genuine challenge to the current order is the willingness of human beings to reject the injustice… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
Atheism, which people have tried to for hundreds of years as 'the ways of reason and science,' is proving to be mere… — Harun Yahya Copy Share Image
In daily life, reality gives us material incentives to restrain our irrationality. But what incentive do we have to think rationally about… — Bryan Caplan Copy Share Image
In order to teach a course in the history of Western religious thought, I had to do a great deal of research… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
“The idea of original sin--of guilt with no possibility of innocence, no freedom of choice, no alternatives--inherently militates against self-esteem. The very… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings. — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
So let's set the record straight. Faith is not the opposite of reason. The opposite of faith is unbelief. And reason is… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
It has taken me a long time to realize where I most disagree with Marx. His assessment of capitalism is far too… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance… — Irvin Kershner Copy Share Image
Appeasers will always try to get the least dangerous person to bend to the most dangerous person. This is one of the… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
