Irrationality Quotes
51 quotes by 48 authors
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One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in…
— Eric Hoffer
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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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Atheism, which people have tried to for hundreds of years as 'the ways of reason and science,' is proving to be mere irrationality and ignorance.
— Harun Yahya
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The northern ocean is beautiful, ... and beautiful the delicate intricacy of the snowflake before it melts and perishes, but such beauties are as nothing…
— John Lighton Synge
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The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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So let's set the record straight. Faith is not the opposite of reason. The opposite of faith is unbelief. And reason is not the opposite…
— Greg Koukl
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Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories, imagination and irrationality…
— Robin Wasserman
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If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.
— Edward Abbey
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The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.
— Theodor Adorno
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In daily life, reality gives us material incentives to restrain our irrationality. But what incentive do we have to think rationally about politics?
— Bryan Caplan
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Irrationality is the square root of all evil
— Douglas Hofstadter
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To advocate irrationality is to advocate that which is destructive to human life.
— George H. Smith
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I understand, of course, that grain-fed meat is not the cause of the world hunger problem-and eating some of it doesn't directly take food out…
— Frances Moore Lappé
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I start off with the obvious, that it makes no sense either to believe or to disbelieve in God until a substantial and intelligent definition…
— Kenny Smith
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Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that saves us.
— Florida Scott-Maxwell
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Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism, laziness…
— Eric Gill
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We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of…
— Albert Camus
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The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others to…
— Noam Chomsky
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Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and dogmatism.…
— Rodney Stark
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The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.
— Max Weber
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