Best 109 quotes in «irrational quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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 judgements lead to new experience.

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

Irrational beliefs are culturally accepted delusions.

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

I think life's an irrational obsession.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 irrational haunts the metaphysical.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 expect others to act rationally even though we are irrational.

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

Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.

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.

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.

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?

Writing fiction is fundamentally an irrational act.

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

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.

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