Irrational Quotes
377 quotes by 318 authors
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To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.
— Rowan Atkinson
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Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating,…
— Scott Adams
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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
— Emile M. Cioran
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O Woe to his blinded soul! Saying this, he as it were said to God: "Thou Thyself are guilty, because the woman whom Thou gavest…
— Symeon the New Theologian
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If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.
— C.S. Lewis
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Love is like Pi: natural, irrational, and very important.
— Lisa Hoffman
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War is an irrational, counter-productive way to handle conflicts.
— Lawrence S. Wittner
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A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your…
— Nabeshima Naoshige
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It is an irrational claim to believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ and at the same time to hold that the greater part of…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Last year a friend went dark in a nervous city alone, the sea flashing against his glasses, the sea sorted out at last in his…
— Sylvia Plath
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Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!
— Tom Peters
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Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.
— Hugh Mackay
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Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.
— George Santayana
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Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant
— Charlie Chaplin
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The transfinite numbers are in a sense the new irrationalities [ ... they] stand or fall with the finite irrational numbers.
— Georg Cantor
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Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.
— Mark Twain
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Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.
— Sigmund Freud
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Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will be like the…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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