“Never argue with the surreal; there's no winning against irrationality.” — Kate Griffin Copy Share Image
The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities. — Paul Eldridge Copy Share Image
“How does one answer a question that, in its very formulation, defies belief?” — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
“Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.” — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Madness was only a handicap only if you couldn't control its irrationalities. — Stuart Hill Copy Share Image
I think irrationality is one of the scariest things in the world. — Marcia Gay Harden Copy Share Image
A miracle entails a degree of irrationality-not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it. — Emmanuel Levinas 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
“…It seems impossible to overestimate their capacity for irrationality. Somewhere in this world, with every blink of the eye, a fool is… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality - without exploiting them… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
To enlighten people by reminding them the irrationality of their beliefs is an act more honest and more important than the act… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Priest is a fisherman and Holy Book is a fishook. We either refuse to be a fish or we burn in the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Many great ideas, great love stories, and great achievements are born from a healthy irrationality.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I have thought sometimes that the sanest people, the people who are just very balanced, very happy, are probably lower achieving than… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
The idea of Jewish settlements under Palestinian sovereignty, as was suggested by someone in the Prime Minister's office, is very dangerous and… — Naftali Bennett Copy Share Image
[Burke] emphasized that the new forms of politics, which hope to organize society around the rational pursuit of liberty, equality, fraternity, or… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
But when reason and the study of history began revealing the irrationality, the limitations, and the merely transitory nature of the capitalist… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
“The chief danger of adopting a credible pose of irrationality is that to succeed in the pretense you have to be very… — Carl Sagan 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
“The problem is that most people, most of the time, are desperate to believe ridiculous and divisive ideas for patently emotional reasons,and… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I start off with the obvious, that it makes no sense either to believe or to disbelieve in God until a substantial… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
My clinical psychologist wife of 40 years has always had a close intellectual influence on me. When I was beginning to talk… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
We must have research for peace ... It would embrace the outstanding problems of morality. The time has come for man's intellect,… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
“On reflection, falling in love for him was not only extraordinary, but rather comical. By having closely observed Kiyoaki Matsugae, he knew… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“Action is, by definition, always rational. One is unwarranted in calling goals of action irrational simply because they are not worth striving… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In our most Puritan of society, gambling-like other pleasures-is either taxed, restricted to certain hours, or forbidden altogether. Yet the impulse to… — Richard Arnold Epstein 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
“I sensed that if I were ever to meet [Senator Orrin] Hatch face-to-face there would be little that we could agree upon.… — Guillermo Jimenez Copy Share Image
If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“If thou really believe in one God, irrationality is subset of thou logic.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
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![“I sensed that if I were ever to meet [Senator Orrin] Hatch face-to-face there would be little that we could agree upon. There was something about watching Hatch that reminded me of unpleasant, futile political arguments I had had in my life. I wondered whether such political disagreements did not…” quote by Guillermo Jimenez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0cf/guillermo-jimenez-43364_irrationality_i-sensed-that-if-i-were-ever-to-meet-sen_944760.jpg)
