Irrational Quotes

377 quotes by 318 authors

There is nothing quite so gentle, deep, and irrational as running--and nothing quite so savage, so wild. — Bernd Heinrich
In Scripture, faith involves placing trust in what you have reason to believe is true. Faith is not a blind, irrational leap into the dark.… — J.P. Moreland
Anger and depression are not diseases or dysfunctions or anomalies; they are perfectly rational responses to the myriad avoidable disappointments that begin in a thoroughly… — Shalom Auslander
The most central and irrational faith among people is the faith in technology and economical growth. Its priests believe until their death that material prosperity… — Pentti Linkola
All "public interest' legislation (and any distribution of money taken by force from some men for the unearned benefit of others) comes down ultimately to… — Ayn Rand
... there is an irrational, cultish tendency in many intellectual movements, and Objectivism, alas, is no exception. Ayn Rand's personal obsession with loyalty did little… — Nathaniel Branden
Irrational beliefs are culturally accepted delusions. — Robert Todd Carroll
Ultimately, love is only possible for humans insofar as they can achieve some comprehension of their place and their duties and their values and their… — Kenny Smith
For the emergent process, as noted by the geneticist Theodore Dobzhansky, is neither random nor determined but creative. Just as in human order, creativity is… — Thomas Berry
I knew my affection for the Philippines was equally as telling: a democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chaos. A place… — Alex Garland
Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical objects are postulated… — Willard Van Orman Quine
It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it… — Arthur Eddington
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished! To endure, and go calmly… — Joanna Baillie
A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be… — Cyril Connolly
Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do. — Lillian Hellman
These 3 topics will always generate 100+ comments of irrational/ridiculous people: Taxes, tipping, and spending on weddings. — Ramit Sethi
Irrational lenders come and go - mostly they go! — John G. Stumpf
It is a strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually time is… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is slightly chilling to realize there are rational, functional people up there employed to spot, nurture, and exploit those down here among us who… — Jon Ronson
Any fear associated with giving to God's kingdom is irrational. It's on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his seed, refuses… — Andy Stanley

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