Irrationality may be more prevalent in the party of climate denial, but it isn't limited to Republicans. — Max Boot 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
The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part… — Doug Stanhope 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
“reasonable people often have difficulty anticipating irrationality from unreasonable people.” — Bobby Adair Copy Share Image
Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that saves us. — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Like my father, Donor White could hold in his head the incompatible demands of rationality and irrationality, of facts and love.” — David Plotz Copy Share Image
We're living through an age of irrationality and religious "fervor" I would call it religious idiocy. It's exhausting to year after year… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
“All at once, because life’s too short and it’s always like magic when you find a good thing. All at once, because… — Nessie Q Copy Share Image
When you find yourself reluctant to sit on a chair because it had unexpectedly collapsed in the past you might shake your… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
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
“The irrationality of a thing is not an argument against its existence, rather, a condition of it,” he murmured, securing the buttons… — Rebecca Zanetti Copy Share Image
The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Sanity is not about confrontation. It's about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying "no" to crazy people, not… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
I don't think you can rely on Iran. I don't think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the writing I responded to most - the novels and stories that compelled me, that felt like they… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“Rationality is man's basic virtue, the source of all his other virtues. Man's basic vice, the source of all evils, is the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Where was the Jew in him? You couldn't find it and yet you knew it was there. Where was the irrationality in… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they… — Thomas Paine 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
“We hold many dubious beliefs, in other words, not because they satisfy some important psychological need, but because they seem to be… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“Education, the press, politics, religion—in a word, all the great forces in the world—are at present on the side of irrationality; they… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“We must fight for the freedom of religion; because that is the only way we can stand against irrationality.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often… — Eric Hoffer 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
We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil's power over us, diminish its influence… — Dean Koontz 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
Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories,… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
What strikes the historian surveying anti-Semitism worldwide over more than two millennia is its fundamental irrationality. It seems to make no sense,… — Paul Johnson 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
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
What a mathematical proof actually does is show that certain conclusions, such as the irrationality of , follow from certain premises, such… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
“our irrationality happens the same way, again and again. Whether we are acting as consumers, businesspeople, or policy makers, understanding how we… — Dan Ariely 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
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
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
“Intelligence is not limited to neural networks, Merrill. Indeed, half of human intelligence resides in our bodies outside our skulls…The genius of… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
Wherever there is a religious regime, over there there is ignorance, misery and absurdity! No religious state can ever elevate its own… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image