There is no question but that nominally religious scientists like Francis Collins and Kenneth R. Miller are doing lasting harm to our… — Sam Harris 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
The northern ocean is beautiful, ... and beautiful the delicate intricacy of the snowflake before it melts and perishes, but such beauties… — John Lighton Synge Copy Share Image
We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The point is that religion puts a value on irrationality, which makes it the perfect tool for promoting irrational beliefs like misogyny.… — Amanda Marcotte 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
“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
“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
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
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
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
God is great"). Conversations about the practical impossibility of God's existence and the science-based irrationality of an afterlife slid seamlessly into xenophobia… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
I fear that I will always be, A lonely number like root three. A three is all thats good and right, Why… — Ritesh Copy Share Image
Whereas Absurdism in Europe seemed a logical, almost inevitable response to the irrationality of war, the analogous elements that surfaced in American… — Arnold Aronson 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
“For også hun hadde hat sin historie, sin lille uregelmæssighet i sit liv (...)Siden sit ulykkelige forhold til en ung fremmed, en… — Knut Hamsun 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 understand, of course, that grain-fed meat is not the cause of the world hunger problem-and eating some of it doesn't directly… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
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