Irrational Quotes

377 quotes by 318 authors

We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing, individual autonomy and… — Terry Eagleton
There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational. — Albert Ellis
If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic. — Albert Ellis
It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. — Thomas Huxley
Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly. — Jacques Lacan
Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the… — T.E. Lawrence
The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given… — George MacDonald
For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd. — Josh McDowell
Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words. — Vladimir Nabokov
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. — George Jean Nathan
You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which… — Pope Paul VI
I think life's an irrational obsession. — Sean Penn
Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational. — Ron Perlman
When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a… — River Phoenix
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a… — Edgar Allan Poe
The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the… — George Santayana
What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting. — Virginia Satir
Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices. — Sargent Shriver
You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going… — Ron Silver
I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate. — Zadie Smith

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