You get more irrationality within the family and in consumer behavior than you get, say, in the behavior of firms in their… — Ronald Coase Copy Share Image
Irrationality interests me more than anything: sometimes it's very dangerous, but it can be incredibly beautiful. — John Burnside 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
...following Mrs. Roosevelt in search of irrationality was like following a burning fuse in search of an explosive. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Power doesn't corrupt. It's neutral. Someone always wants to corrupt power. It's the way a shotgun is not a deadly weapon until… — Steve Ditko Copy Share Image
“The ramdomness of events in the world is so lacking in logic that we give it names like destiny, fate, karma and… — Anirban Bose Copy Share Image
The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution. — Max Weber 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
“Mix the Protestant impulse to find the meaning and purpose in everything with the Enlightenment’s empiricism, and you get our American mania… — Kurt Andersen 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
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 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
“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
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
“Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as already happened,… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“Then, one sunny September morning, the illusion of a personal God that I tried so hard to believe in, exploded over the… — Nathan Phelps Copy Share Image
Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The transfinite numbers are in a certain sense themselves new irrationalities and in fact in my opinion the best method of defining… — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
“It seems only human nature to hang the label irrational on what we do not understand, since it is easy for us… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
At no time have I ever said that people should be stripped of their right to the insanity of belief in God.… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
“In fact quite generally, commercial advertising is fundamentally an effort to undermine markets. We should recognize that. If you’ve taken an economics… — Noam Chomsky 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
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
A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
“Look into the irrationality closely, with a determination not to respect it, and not to let it dominate you. Whenever it thrusts… — Bertrand Russell 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 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
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
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
[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
“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
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
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 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
“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
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
“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
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
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