Best 109 quotes in «irrational quotes» category

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

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

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

Irrational judgements lead to new experience.

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

Irrational beliefs are culturally accepted delusions.

I think life's an irrational obsession.

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

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.

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

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

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

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

My position is that we should not succumb to irrational belief.

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

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.

Sleep is the gateway to those nightly visitations of the irrational.

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.

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

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.

The irrational haunts the metaphysical.

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

When people change their irrational beliefs to undogmatic flexible preferences, they become less disturbed.

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.

Writing fiction is fundamentally an irrational act.

Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.

Every irrational and unscientific belief will ruin your life! Your own wrong belief will be your own tragic punishment!

A sane man is at his sanest just after he has orgasmed.

Black(people) hold onto their God just as the drunken man holds on to the street lamp post—for physical support only.

COUNT. The fact is, when you start losing your temper, even the most tightly controlled imagination will run wild, just as it does in dreams.

Earthquake means destruction; dictator means destruction! In the case of earthquake, you need a strong building; in the case of dictator, you need an educated rational mind, because an irrational ignorant mind always serves the dictator!

Don't be in temper, to leave so quickly, that I may be dying. But all too soon, the leaves and debris will gather elsewhere.