Quote by Bertrand Russell

“It may be laid down broadly that irrationalism, i.e. disbelief in objective fact, arises almost always from the desire to assert something for which…

— Bertrand Russell

“the irrational invalidates any meaning attached to it.”

— Hermann Broch

“It’s all well and good to have a mountain of psychological research detailing the different ways in which we routinely fail to think and…

— Joseph Heath

“Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Don’t be afraid to be thought…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Rationality is man's basic virtue, the source of all his other virtues. Man's basic vice, the source of all evils, is the act of…

— Ayn Rand

“Baptize yourself with the flow of rational thinking and the world is bound to become rational.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Trying to rationalize with the irrational is a total waste of time.”

— Adra Young

“What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.”

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“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

“The chief danger of adopting a credible pose of irrationality is that to succeed in the pretense you have to be very good. After…

— Carl Sagan

“...the irrational will have its say, perhaps because 'irrational' is the wrong word for it.”

— Robertson Davies

Irrationality interests me more than anything: sometimes it's very dangerous, but it can be incredibly beautiful.

— John Burnside