Irrational Quote by Annie Dillard Download Open image “The irrational haunts the metaphysical.” — Annie Dillard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Irrational Metaphysical Philosophy
I think irrationality is one of the scariest things in the world. — Marcia Gay Harden 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 foolish thoughts… — Bertrand Russell 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
There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and brain. — Madison Cawein Copy Share Image
For many, the regressive belief in superstitions and miracles is an escape from the hardships of life. Once trapped into irrationalism, they become more… — Sanal Edamaruku Copy Share Image
“The irrational is the impossible; it is that which contradicts the facts of reality; facts cannot be altered by a wish, but they can… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What haunts me is not exactly the absence of literal space so much as a deep craving for metaphorical space: release, escape, some kind… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“The imagination, as a subset of the lesser “irrational,” has been rejected and devalued by our culture to the point that we acknowledge its… — Sandra Dennis Copy Share Image
“This is a spendthrift economy; though nothing is lost, all is spent.” — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“...The mockingbird took a single step into the air and dropped. His wings were still folded against his sides as though he were singing… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Father had stretched out his long legs and was tilting back in his chair. Mother sat with her knees crossed, in blue slacks, smoking… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
It should surprise no one that the life of the writer - such as it is - is colorless to the point of sensory… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain. This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“What can we make of the inexpressible joy of children? It is a kind of gratitude, I think—the gratitude of the ten-year-old who wakes… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
There are big, extremely irrational parts of the society, and they have now been mobilized politically by the Republican establishment, hoping that these people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion,… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
America must deal once and for all with an utterly irrational health care financing system that allows private interests to make billions in profits… — Suzanne Gordon Copy Share Image
My greatest personal mistake is ever to allow a word or moment that “doesn’t count,” i.e., that I do not refer to my own… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Many people do simply awful things out of sincere religious belief, not using religion as a cover the way that Saddam Hussein may have… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Remember that failure is part of the process of successful running. Performance is a roller coaster; to think otherwise is irrational and will cause… — Jerry Lynch Copy Share Image
In [the soul] one part naturally rules, and the other is subject, and the virtue of the ruler we maintain to be different from… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the irrational truth.… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
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