Beans Quote by Tom Stoppard

“You stupid woman, if rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans! ”

— Tom Stoppard

If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.

— Anonymous

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A rational nature admits of nothing but what is serviceable to the rest of mankind.

— Marcus Aurelius

Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.

— Anne Lamott

The world is not a rational place.

— Bette Greene

If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

— Lars von Trier

I would warn against too much of a radical devotion to rationality. Rationality is an illusion, an invented concept, a construct from the mind…

— Derek R. Audette

The usefulness of cow-peas and soy-beans as human food has been recognized only recently in this country.

— David F. Houston

The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.

— Pete Seeger

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Rationalizing is not a tool for penetration of reality but a post-factum attempt to harmonize one's own wishes with existing reality.”

— Erich Fromm