Irrationality Quotes

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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
The transfinite numbers are in a sense the new irrationalities [ ... they] stand or fall with the finite irrational numbers. — Georg Cantor
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
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
The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men. — Reinhold Niebuhr
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
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
If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality. — Edward Abbey
The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art. — Theodor Adorno
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
Irrationality is the square root of all evil — Douglas Hofstadter
To advocate irrationality is to advocate that which is destructive to human life. — George H. Smith
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 LappÃ©
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
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
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
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
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
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
The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution. — Max Weber

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