Best 109 quotes in «irrational quotes» category

Until now, human organization could only be based upon something negative which could not be conquered: SCARCITY, and something false: PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY... No wonder instead of producing stability, it produced the exact opposite. The current human organization based upon dealing with the consequences of scarcity and being considered responsible for our individual characteristics which we could never have chosen (our nature, our nurture, our “soul”, and all the choices they engender), will always lead to an irrational, hence unstable human organization causing perpetual conflicts, which is no organization at all. Today, we have the luxury to initiate a rational self-organization based upon two positives: -our HUMAN CONSENSUS; our common desires shared by all, and -the SCIENTIFIC PROJECT to achieve them.

We are all rational in our own eyes. We are irrational only from the perspective of another person whose concept of rationality is different from ours.

We are forced to fall back on fatalism as an explanation of irrational events (that is to say, events the reasonableness of which we do not understand).

We irrationally believe we will be the same way we are today in 10 years. You won’t. You’ll be a totally new human. Who do you want to be? Whoever it is, do it on purpose. Intentionally.⁣

What millions believe is often just fairy tales for children! The fabrications of the past are ridiculously accepted as the holies of people! Glory lies in searching the truth not in believing the irrational legends!

We should be agnostic about those things for which there is no evidence. We should not hold beliefs merely because they gratify our desires for afterlife, immortality, heaven, hell, etc.

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

Your realm is an insane place. In Volaria, no-one goes hungry, slaves are no use when they starve. Those freeborn too lazy or lacking in intelligence to turn sufficient profit to feed themselves are made slaves so they can generate wealth for those deserving of freedom, and be fed in return. Here, your people are chained by their freedom, free to starve and beg from the rich. It's disgusting.

You had me believing that I was crazy. Every time I broke down over what seemed like nothing, it was you.’ Bade ran an anxious hand through his hair. ‘Well, that’s love isn’t it?’ Davina took his restless hand. ‘Love is crazy and irrational, and anything less would be boring.

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.

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

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

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

-But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Irrational beliefs are culturally accepted delusions.

I think life's an irrational obsession.

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

I am a superior form of human and I have absolutely no quirks or irrational impulses of any kind.

I am bundle of nerves riddled with irrational fears.

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

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

Irrational judgements lead to new experience.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 irrational haunts the metaphysical.

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

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