Irrational Quotes

377 quotes by 318 authors

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
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
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
Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all. — Emile M. Cioran
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
If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat. — C.S. Lewis
Love is like Pi: natural, irrational, and very important. — Lisa Hoffman
War is an irrational, counter-productive way to handle conflicts. — Lawrence S. Wittner
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
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
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
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
Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational. — Hugh Mackay
Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses. — George Santayana
Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant — Charlie Chaplin
The transfinite numbers are in a sense the new irrationalities [ ... they] stand or fall with the finite irrational numbers. — Georg Cantor
Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that. — Mark Twain
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
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
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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