Quotes about Irrational

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. Votes: 4

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational. Votes: 4

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit. Votes: 4

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream. Votes: 4

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape. Votes: 4

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion. Votes: 4

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom. Votes: 4

Irrational beliefs are culturally accepted delusions. Votes: 3

Irrational judgements lead to new experience. Votes: 3

Irrational lenders come and go - mostly they go! Votes: 3

Irrational expectations are at the root of most human suffering. Votes: 3

Pathological Stubbornness and Irrational Optimism "“ Lessons I've learned on my entrepreneurial journey Votes: 3

Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason. Votes: 3

Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake. Votes: 3

Irrational crushes, infatuations, or obsessions. Whatever you want to label it, it's important to reach out to others. Votes: 3

Most illogical Irrational nature of our womanhood, That blushes one way, feels another way, And prays, perhaps another! Votes: 3

One should believe only what can be chosen to be true or just. Irrational (or unjustified) beliefs should be avoided because they can have disastrous practical consequences. Votes: 3

Beware:Ignorance Protects itself.IgnorancePromotes suspicion.SuspicionEngenders fear.Fear quails,Irrational and blind,Or fear looms,Defiant and closed.Blind, closed,Suspicious, afraid,IgnoranceProtects itself,And protected,Ignorance grows. Votes: 3

Beware: Ignorance Protects itself. Ignorance Promotes suspicion. Suspicion Engenders fear. Fear quails, Irrational and blind, Or fear looms, Defiant and closed. Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows. Votes: 3

I think life's an irrational obsession. Votes: 2

I am bundle of nerves riddled with irrational fears. Votes: 2

Love is like Pi: natural, irrational, and very important. Votes: 2

Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. Votes: 2

How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values? Votes: 2

Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart. Votes: 2

Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing. Votes: 2

People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway. Votes: 2

Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational. Votes: 2

There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world. Votes: 2

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational. Votes: 2

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational. Votes: 2

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting. Votes: 2

A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. Votes: 2

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. Votes: 2

Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly. Votes: 2

I have an irrational fear that something bad is going to happen to me when I'm drinking out of a water fountain. I have no idea why. Votes: 2

Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals. Votes: 2

But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade? Votes: 2

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. Votes: 2

Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience. Votes: 2

There's absolutely nothing irrational about me; insane, yes, irrational, no. But my dumbest fear would be spinning in the magic tea cups. Who the hell wants to pay to spin around like a bent yoyo for laughs? Votes: 2

Superstition is the irrational belief that an object or behavior has the power to influence an outcome, when there's no logical connection between them. Most of us aren't superstitious - but most of us are a 'littlestitious.' Votes: 2

The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space-each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision. Votes: 2

Many bodybuilders sell themselves short. Erroneously attributing their lack of satisfactory progress to a poverty of the requisite genetic traits, instead of to their irrational training and dietary practices, they give up training. Don't make the same mistake Votes: 2

We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing, individual autonomy and ironic self-doubt; culture means a form of life that is customary, collective, passionate, spontaneous, unreflective and irrational. Votes: 2

When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard. Votes: 2

For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion, let alone an exercise in irrational conspiracy theorizing. Rather, it speaks to a social reality about which blacks are acutely aware. Votes: 2

We are all far less rational in our decision-making than standard economic theory assumes. Our irrational behaviors are neither random nor senseless: they are systematic and predictable. We all make the same types of mistakes over and over, because of the basic wiring of our brains. Votes: 2

It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like Homer Simpson than Superman. So from this perspective it is rather depressing. But at the same time there is also a silver lining. There are free lunches! Votes: 2

Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a builder. So it isn't irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it made itself. Votes: 2

Religion is an irrational construct. Votes: 0

The irrational haunts the metaphysical. Votes: 0

An exotic and irrational entertainment. Votes: 0

Your trust in rationality makes you irrational. Votes: 0

Writing fiction is fundamentally an irrational act. Votes: 0

It's the irrational things that interest me. Votes: 0

People are irrational - and predictably so. Votes: 0

PRONOIA: The irrational belief that people like you Votes: 0

He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior. Votes: 0

All great art contains an element of the irrational. Votes: 0

The voice of reason is inaudible to irrational people. Votes: 0

The advance of science spares us from irrational dread. Votes: 0

War is an irrational, counter-productive way to handle conflicts. Votes: 0

Fashion somehow, for me, is purely and happily irrational. Votes: 0

Programmers are as emotional and irrational as normal people Votes: 0

The insane and irrational springs of wickedness in most men... Votes: 0

I'm irrational about all things creative, and I'm always late! Votes: 0

It's a completely irrational decision to drop out of school. Votes: 0

Human fears are very often irrational constructs of the mind. Votes: 0

Every discovery contains an irrational element or a creative intuition. Votes: 0

Love is as irrational as hate and just as unpredictable. Votes: 0

I actually have a very real, irrational fear of zombies. Votes: 0

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words. Votes: 0

Humans were eventually irrational creatures gifted with the power of rationality. Votes: 0

The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions. Votes: 0

I am a reasonable and sane functionalist tempered by irrational frivolity. Votes: 0

Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses. Votes: 0

We expect others to act rationally even though we are irrational. Votes: 0

I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational. Votes: 0

Paradoxes only stump sane people. Nuts have irrational on our side. Votes: 0

Sleep is the gateway to those nightly visitations of the irrational. Votes: 0

I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate. Votes: 0

Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices. Votes: 0

When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division. Votes: 0

If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic. Votes: 0

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational. Votes: 0

Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings. Votes: 0

We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms. Votes: 0

I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously. Votes: 0

I have no prejudices: all my irrational hatreds are based on solid evidence. Votes: 0

Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past. Votes: 0

Only in the irrational and unknown direction can we come to wisdom again Votes: 0

Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Votes: 0

All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time. Votes: 0

An exotic and irrational entertainment, which has been always combated, and always has prevailed. Votes: 0

I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational. Votes: 0

To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable. Votes: 0

It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. Votes: 0

Grace is the offer of God's ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped. Votes: 0

Excessive or irrational schedules are probably the single most destructive influence in all of software Votes: 0

You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse. Votes: 0

Dare to be irrational! - keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid. Votes: 0

The irrational thoughts were the ones with the power to burn holes in your gut. Votes: 0

Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant Votes: 0

I have no phobias. Phobias are irrational. My fears are rational and CAREFULLY CULTIVATED, like roses. Votes: 0

We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior. Votes: 0

These 3 topics will always generate 100+ comments of irrational/ridiculous people: Taxes, tipping, and spending on weddings. Votes: 0

Hysteria is a chaotic and irrational emotional state caused by seeing how the world really operates. Votes: 0

I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational. Votes: 0

Love is irrational, I reminded myself. The more you loved someone, the less sense anything made. Votes: 0

People will assign irrational importance to almost anything in quotes on top of a pleasant image Votes: 0

If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality. Votes: 0

In the '90s it was irrational exuberance. Now it may be irrational doom and gloom. Votes: 0

I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country. Votes: 0

They did it for love, and sometimes love makes us do the irrational .. even the inexcusable. Votes: 0

The wind shifts like this: Like a human without illusions, Who still feels irrational things within her. Votes: 0

Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities. Votes: 0

It is sometimes rational to do what is wrong, and sometimes irrational to do what is right Votes: 0

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all. Votes: 0

For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd. Votes: 0

A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. Votes: 0

What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. Votes: 0

There is nothing quite so gentle, deep, and irrational as running--and nothing quite so savage, so wild. Votes: 0

The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives. Votes: 0

Fear is ugly because it makes you irrational. Fear makes you jump to conclusions. Fear makes you reactionary. Votes: 0

Homophobia: The irrational fear the three fags will break into your house and redecorate it against your will. Votes: 0

Every attempt to explain human behavior, especially the irrational, must as a matter of course end in simplification. Votes: 0

At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent. Votes: 0

In its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all irrational reactions of the average human character. Votes: 0

Flesh-eating by humans is unnecessary, irrational, anatomically unsound, unhealthy, unhygienic, uneconomic, unaesthetic, unkind and unethical. May I elaborate? Votes: 0

Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do. Votes: 0

If one's patriotism is merely instinctive it is irrational and irresponsible, and consequently a danger to one's country. Votes: 0

God has given us the fascination and mystery of irrational numbers, as one aspect of a rich world Votes: 0

Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy. Votes: 0

These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency. Votes: 0

Who would seriously want to listen to anything emanating from a quasi-chimpanzee's irrational bundle of mental accidents and energies? Votes: 0

There are real threats but there's a difference between recognizing real threats and an irrational kind of apocalyptic threat. Votes: 0

The ... irrational fear of communism is being deliberately used in many quarters to blind us to our real problems. Votes: 0

Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel. Votes: 0

As long as men are free to speak, a small, rational minority will always prevail over an irrational majority. Votes: 0

Are you imperfect, romantically irrational, ridiculously fearless, and utterly illogical? You're my ideal reader, friend, partner. I'm your fan. Votes: 0

Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that. Votes: 0

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood? Votes: 0

Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built. Votes: 0

I used to always prefer to text, and in fact got indignant when people called. This was totally irrational. Votes: 0

Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world. Votes: 0

The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter. Votes: 0

Fear of death is irrational. We all know we will die one day. But again we are irrational beings Votes: 0

The transfinite numbers are in a sense the new irrationalities [ ... they] stand or fall with the finite irrational numbers. Votes: 0

Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts. Votes: 0

Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves. Votes: 0

Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is! Votes: 0

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. Votes: 0

There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group. Votes: 0

The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration. Votes: 0

The delegates to the peace conference after World War I "tried to impose a rational order on an irrational world. Votes: 0

The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational. Votes: 0

... there is no such thing as a rational world and a separate irrational world, but only one world containing both. Votes: 0

If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat. Votes: 0

To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty... and... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's... all irrational. Votes: 0

I have irrational fears, and they all go back to losing my father as a kid. I've never gotten over it. Votes: 0

There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle. Votes: 0

What I'm saying is that I'm trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that's neveer a good sign. Votes: 0

To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition. Votes: 0

In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them. Votes: 0

Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen. Votes: 0

There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't. Votes: 0

There are irrational fears. If you see a woman wearing a hijab and fear is your first thought, something's really wrong. Votes: 0

Trump was the logical outcome of the Republican's irrational, racialized backlash to Obama that had utterly come to dominate the party's thinking. Votes: 0

What good your beautiful proof on the transcendence of Pi: Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist? Votes: 0

Naturally, our own irrational demands strike us as having the force of needs, while other people's needs strike us as capricious indulgences. Votes: 0

... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance. Votes: 0

Nothing could be more irrational than to give the people power, and to withhold from them information without which power is abused. Votes: 0

Art is magic, not logic. This craze for the logical spirit in irrational shape is part of the present harmful mania for uniformity ... Votes: 0

Anthropocentrism is simply irrational. And yet this is the thrust of much of our traditional religious thought and teaching, particularly in the West. Votes: 0

Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature. Votes: 0

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand. Votes: 0

The creative individual not only respects the irrational in himself, but also courts the most promising source of novelty in his own thought. Votes: 0

Christian faith is not an irrational leap.Examined objectively, the claims of the Bible are rational propositions well supported by reason and evidence. Votes: 0

We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us. Votes: 0

The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis. Votes: 0

Love is an irrational force, making humans do all sorts of strange and wonderful things like write poetry and take up the ukulele. Votes: 0

If you're afraid of something, face it. Fear is irrational. The only way to conquer your fear is to stand next to it. Votes: 0

Why will someone sell you a dollar for 50 cents? Because in the short run, people are irrational on both the optimistic and pessimistic side. Votes: 0

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. Votes: 0

Research – and using what you learn from it to analyze every situation – is what separates being unreasonable from being irrational. Votes: 0

It seems like topsy-turvyland to make reason serve the irrational. Yet that is just what it has always done, and ought always to do. Votes: 0

To believe in faeries is to step into an enchanted space where the rational mind meets the irrational heart, and all things become possible. Votes: 0

The nightmare of the Cold War was nuclear weapons in the hands of an irrational person. I don't want to live through that nightmare. Votes: 0

I have an irrational fear that I'm going to have a gruesome and untimely death because so many wonderful things are happening to me. Votes: 0

We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way. Votes: 0

I still had an irrational desire to do an interpretive dance about rainbows, but it was a small price to pay for being healed. Votes: 0

Our enemy is fear. Blinding, reason-killing fear. Fear consumes the truth and poisons all the evidence, leading us to false assumptions and irrational conclusions. Votes: 0

I'm trapped in a fun-house mirror reflection of a historical society where everyone was crazy by default, driven mad by irrational laws and meaningless customs. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act bored and above-it-all. Votes: 0

It's a funny thing, by the way, how people who love free markets are also quite sure that they know that investors are being irrational. Votes: 0

Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing. Votes: 0

Science fiction has always had a dark side. There has been a touch of the irrational and absurd in the genre from the very beginning. Votes: 0

It's not an irrational decision, I've been thinking about this for quite a while and maybe it'll be good for me [on his career break Votes: 0

That part of you that feels bad when you do wrong is the reasonable part of you that was subdued by the unreasonable and irrational Votes: 0

The core of the Marxist critique of capitalism is that although the individual capitalist is rational (as liberals assume), the capitalist system itself is irrational. Votes: 0

I think that a society cannot live without a certain number of irrational beliefs. They are protected from criticism and analysis because they are irrational. Votes: 0

Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other language. Votes: 0

... A rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those ... truths were really there, would be an irrational rule. Votes: 0

Society doesn't need that everybody is behaving in the full normal way... like people in a Buddhist monastery... But eccentricity may also connect with the irrational. Votes: 0

Kestilan?" There was that name again. Oliver fought down an irrational surge of jealousy for this mysterious being who took up so much of Petunia's attention. Votes: 0

While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the conscious and unconscious. Votes: 0

A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams. Votes: 0

The Greeks were the first intellectualists. In a world where the irrational had played the chief role, they came forward as the protagonists of the mind. Votes: 0

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 satisfied Votes: 0

Who is more irrational, the guy who believes in a God he can't see, or a guy who's offended by a God he doesn't believe in? Votes: 0

For some reason I've always had an irrational love for New York. There's no reason that you would necessarily like it on paper. It's very expensive. Votes: 0

It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know. Votes: 0

It was futile to attack with reason the stout wall of irrational feelings that, as is known, is the stuff of which the female mind is made. Votes: 0

Building a company is basically taking all the irrational people you know... Putting them in one building and then living with them 12 hrs a day at least. Votes: 0

I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise of ... shall we say, power. Votes: 0

How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle. Votes: 0

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 irrational hope. Votes: 0

In the battle between the sexes, men and women will go practically to the end of the earth in illogical, irrational ways to give each other pain. Votes: 0

By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There's no specific line, as you know. Votes: 0

Any irrational fears?no, i'm quite a rationalist. i'm not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities to worry about illogical things. Votes: 0

Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows. Votes: 0

The most important thing to remember about confronting an irrational person is that they are usually attributing an inaccurate meaning to a situation causing them to react irrationally. Votes: 0

Behind every rational and irrational force in human society there is a social mechanism which determines where it is to appear and what forms it is to take. Votes: 0

Many students of dreams, from Plato to [Sigmund] Freud, hold that the sleeping person,deprived of contact with the outside world, regresses temporarily to an irrational primitive mental state. Votes: 0

By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There’s no specific line, as you know. Votes: 0

Most of the time it is a good job and a good honour to fight against people's values, because most of the time people's values are irrational and absurd! Votes: 0

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 to plant his fields. Votes: 0

Being irrational and out of control is what happens in real life. Not cautiously choreographing your anger or your emotions, losing yourself in them is what happens in real life. Votes: 0

When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant. Votes: 0

The techniques of kitsch, which are based on imitation, are rational and operate according to formulas; the remain rational even when their result has a highly irrational, even crazy, quality. Votes: 0

Would a watermelon in the midst of a chase sequence not be, in its own organic way, emblematic of our entire misunderstood enterprise? At once totally logical and perfectly irrational? Votes: 0

I believe our concept of romantic love is irrational, impossible to fulfill and the cause of many broken homes. No human being can maintain that rarefied atmosphere of 'true love'. Votes: 0

Many of her thoughts were perfect syllogisms; unluckily they always remained thoughts. Only a few were irrational assumptions; but, unfortunately, they were the ones which most frequently grew into deeds Votes: 0

We accept that people are irrational for good Darwinian reasons. But I don't think we should be so pessimistic as to think that therefore we're forever condemned to be irrational. Votes: 0

While scholars are comparing and contrasting theories, debating intellectual questions, and dividing humankind into categories, the world is changed by persons with faith, spirit, emotion, compassion, intuition, and irrational thinking. Votes: 0

There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it. Votes: 0

I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people - will say it's irrational because violence is irrational. Votes: 0

A man can only grow to a certain point when alone; to grow further you need some "irrational shocks", like a wife and children; a dramatic change to your own life. Votes: 0

Secrets are inherently selfish. The longer you keep them, the harder it is to put yourself in other people's shoes about them and the more irrational your thinking surrounding it becomes. Votes: 0

The traits the word 'childish' addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this age-discriminatory word when it comes to criticizing behavior associated with irresponsibility and irrational thinking. Votes: 0

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 where I'd felt instantly at home. Votes: 0

The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational. Votes: 0

I know that the dream mind is irrational, but I like to think that if I hear something in a dream that's really good, then it's irrational... but it's not crazy. Votes: 0

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 problems humans face: cooperation without kinship Votes: 0

Being a sports fan is a complex matter, in part irrational but not unworthy; a relief from the seriousness of the real world, with its unending pressures and often grave obligations. Votes: 0

To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death. Votes: 0

When we approach history, we are dealing with a conglomeration of irrational continua. Those who deal with history by nonrational processes are the ones who make history, the actors in it. Votes: 0

The Euro is a conquest of sovereignty. It gives us a margin of manoeuvre. Its a tool to help us master globalisation and help us resist irrational shifts in the market. Votes: 0

Gender, race, ethnicity "“ these are all morally neutral. But homosexuality is "“ involves voluntary sexual conduct with serious public health, social, sociological implications. It's not irrational to discriminate on that basis. Votes: 0

I saw that evil was impotent—that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real—and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of the good to serve it. Votes: 0

Mother love is the most powerful, the most irrational force on earth, even more powerful than sexual love. However, one does lead to the other, so best not to spurn the former. Votes: 0

I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn't change them. That hurt. Votes: 0

I'm quite a rational person, but I'm drawn to the irrational. I love coincidences, and I like to question that in fiction: 'Is this random, or is there something working underneath?' Votes: 0

I think we are intrinsically prone to being irrational and superstitious. A lot of it comes from our fear of the unknown and the fear of a lack of control over our fate. Votes: 0

Everyone declares that love is irrational, and yet everytime this statement is proven correct, they profess amazement. They seem to assume that love will make an exception in their case. It never does. Votes: 0

The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help, they have no hope. Votes: 0

I dont agree with those who think that the conflict is simply between two religions, namely Christianity and Islam... To me, the key conflict is between irrational blind faith and rational, logical minds. Votes: 0

I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality. Votes: 0

When I photograph, I try to use my instincts as much as possible. It is when pictures are unconsidered and irrational that they come to life; that they evolve from showing to being. Votes: 0

You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime. Votes: 0

If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesnt get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational. Votes: 0

Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief. Votes: 0

When you're in the throes of this romantic love, it's overwhelming - you're out of control, you're irrational, you're going to the gym at 6 A.M. every day - Why? Because she's there. Votes: 0

It was clear to me that the vulnerable point of the American Grandmaster (Bobby Fischer) was in double-edged, hanging, irrational positions, where he often failed to find a win even in a won position Votes: 0

I'm embarrassed to admit that I'm still scared of the dark. I have to have a light on all night. It's completely irrational, and my son is the same. I just hate the dark. Votes: 0

Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses. Votes: 0

God created the first pair equal in rights, possessions, and authority. He bequeathed the earth to them as a joint inheritance; gave them joint dominion over the irrational creation; but none over each other. Votes: 0

What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked? Votes: 0

I love the idea of bringing order out of disorder which is what the mystery is about. I like the way in which it affirms the sanity of human life and exorcises irrational guilts. Votes: 0

Randian heroes come off as metaphors for Jews because they are beset by irrational forces that try to bar them from the professions and use their virtues against them to bring about their destruction. Votes: 0

I like irrational things. I like scenarios where I can think, 'It would be great if at this point we could do x.' And there doesn't have to be a reason for 'x'. Votes: 0

It is economically irrational to exclude large environmental costs from the balance sheets of the producers and the consumers. You are only kidding yourself if you export those costs on to society as a whole. Votes: 0

Once a restless or frayed mood has turned to anger, or violence, or psychosis, Richard, like most, finds it very difficult to see it as illness, rather than being willful, angry, irrational or simply tiresome. Votes: 0

A very faithful drawing may actually tell us more about the model but despite the promptings of our critical intelligence it will never have the irrational power of the photograph to bear away our faith. Votes: 0

Rational thinking is an important aspect of human nature, but we have imagination, we have ambition, we have irrational fear, we are swayed by other people, we get indoctrinated and we get influenced by advertising. Votes: 0

I didn't ask you to catch me!" "You're so delightful when you're irrational. Of course I'm going to catch you." He slid a hand behind her nape and kissed her again. "It's what I do. Votes: 0

For kids like me, being called childish can be a frequent occurrence. Every time we make irrational demands, exhibit irresponsible behavior, or display any other signs of being normal American citizens, we are called childish. Votes: 0

While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as such, of Political Rights freely secured to White men, is monstrously unjust and irrational. Votes: 0