Irrational Quotes

377 quotes by 318 authors

A lot of people are just really confused by me; they donâ€™t know what to think of me, so they try to compartmentalize me or… — Madonna Ciccone
Collage is the noble conquest of the irrational, the coupling of two realities, irreconcilable in appearance, upon a plane which apparently does not suit them. — Max Ernst
People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway. — Mother Teresa
If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality. — Edward Abbey
Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays lip service to… — Erich Fromm
The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die...His whole life is… — Allan Bloom
Faith is not a blind, irrational conviction. In order to believe, we must know what we believe, and the grounds on which our faith rests. — Charles Hodge
The being we call god is merely a pawn working for a powerful and rational force in some far-off galaxy. This force is trying to… — Nick Yee
Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most… — Ayn Rand
If one's patriotism is merely instinctive it is irrational and irresponsible, and consequently a danger to one's country. — Paul Monroe
When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division. — Al Gore
We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior. — Chen Shui-bian
Bin Laden does reprehensible activities, and we should surely take care of that by killing him as soon as we can. But he's not an… — Michael Scheuer
What you really are afraid of is that you're competing against somebody who is rich and irrational. I mean, it used to be a given,… — John C. Malone
We (the indivisible divinity that works in us) have dreamed the world . We have dreamed it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in space and firm… — Jorge Luis Borges
The very ritual practices that the New Atheists dismiss as costly, inefficient and irrational turn out to be a solution to one of the hardest… — Jonathan Haidt
It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
In order to develop normally, a child requires progressively more complex joint activity with one or more adults who have an irrational emotional relationship with… — Urie Bronfenbrenner
I saw that evil was impotentâ€”that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-realâ€”and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of… — Ayn Rand
There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world. — John Maynard Keynes

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