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WHAT IS IT about FREE! that's so enticing? Why do we have an irrational urge to jump for a FREE! item, even when it's not what we really want? — Dan Ariely

The basic Irrational Act which is renewed every moment of life, is not to commit suicide. — Nanamoli Thera

The essence of extended rationality is to know when you are being irrational. — Paul Gibbons

Every attempt to explain human behavior, especially the irrational, must as a matter of course end in simplification. — Morton Irving Seiden

Love is like Pi: natural, irrational, and very important. — Lisa Hoffman

It's a completely irrational decision to drop out of school. — David Brooks

There is nothing quite so gentle, deep, and irrational as running
and nothing quite so savage, so wild. — Bernd Heinrich

Stating a truth in an emotional way does not make what we say irrational; our beliefs being severed from truth and reality do. — Patty Houser

There is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

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

Being alive can kill you. It can make you completely irrational. — Sarah Bredeman

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

Humans are fundamentally irrational. They use what precious rationality they have justifying their irrational behavior. A — Rita Mae Brown

People with OCD including myself, realize that their seemingly uncontrollable behavior is irrational, but they feel unable to stop it. — Abhijit Naskar

I have the irrational habit of not listening to people who tell me what to do — Joan Smith

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency. — Margaret Atwood

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. — Douglas Lain

The delegates to the peace conference after World War I tried to impose a rational order on an irrational world. — Margaret MacMillan

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

The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions. — Will Durant

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 — Ronnie O'Sullivan

War is an irrational, counter-productive way to handle conflicts. — Lawrence S. Wittner

Human fears are very often irrational constructs of the mind. — Matthew Reilly

Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake. — John F. Kennedy

All people, whatever they are doing, no matter how crazy or irrational it seems ... it is how they need to act - from their perspective. — Nikki Sex

There's no way to make the irrational work. — Ayn Rand

The insane and irrational springs of wickedness in most men ... — John Maynard Keynes

We are irrational animals trained to be rational. — Ben Tolosa

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. — Milan Kundera

What is love, Mikayel? Isn't it the most irrational of all human emotions? And the one most forbidden? — Christine Fonseca

Thus did I begin to see, or thought I began to see, how the British Conservatives kept the fierce, irrational loyalty of those whom they exploited. — Christopher Hitchens

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. — Samantha Morton

I can't prove it yet know it when I seem it. — Brian Spellman

The ... irrational fear of communism is being deliberately used in many quarters to blind us to our real problems. — Helen Gahagan Douglas

No churchmen, I notice. Of course not. What use have they for a world without irrational fear? — Jonathan L. Howard

The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives. — Mason Cooley

So we invent reasons for the unreasonable. We are rationalists of the irrational. It — Joyce Carol Oates

There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group. — Erich Fromm

Fear and anger are a threat to justice. They can infect a community, a state, or a nation, and make us blind, irrational, and dangerous. — Bryan Stevenson

I don't have arachnophobia (irrational fear of spiders) because fear of spiders is perfectly rational so I refuse to recognize it as a "disorder. — Jenny Lawson

Much like trains in India, grief is a circular, irrational process with no discernible rhythm or timetable. Here it comes, there it goes. — Suzanne Finnamore

Irrational terror is so hard to deal with. — Tove Jansson

I'm assuming you have a reason behind this irrational need to conform to this institution. (Eric) — Shannon A. Thompson

Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings. — Jonathan Edwards

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

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories. — Margaret Walker

Anxiety was an irrational beast. — Dannika Dark

Humans were eventually irrational creatures gifted with the power of rationality. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Anxiety was an irrational beast. You could go through hell and back, and yet the most seemingly innocuous thing could set off a flurry of panic. — Dannika Dark

Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel. — Francine Pascal

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

Your trust in rationality makes you irrational. — Orson Scott Card

Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason. — Aristotle.

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. — Woody Allen

To want to tackle everything rationally is irrational. — Ilyas Kassam

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. — Paul Krugman

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

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. — Rudy Giuliani

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

When you are irrationally irrational you may find that life is magical. — Debasish Mridha

You two are well matched. Both stubborn and irrational when it comes to each other. — Laurann Dohner

It is the irrational That is worth living for — Dorothea Lasky

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

Paradoxes only stump sane people. Nuts have irrational on our side. — Brian Spellman

Sometimes I'm irrational, I know I am, but even irrational thought feels very, very real when you're in the middle of shit. — Kim Holden

Dare to learn. Dare to think. Dare to be irrational. — Debasish Mridha

Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves. — Robert Graves

I know I have nothing to worry about and I'm being irrational, but let me have my irrationality. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I was still rather young, and I hadn't thought it through, how irrational, how unpredictable is the attraction between people, how fatal its current. — Magda Szabo

The irrational thoughts were the ones with the power to burn holes in your gut. — Keith Ablow

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

But I'm human. Besides being irrational, stupid, and unpredictable, humans are really curious. I needed to know what the hell was making that noise. — Manel Loureiro

It's irrational and childish for me to be upset, and I don't care. — Jim Butcher

Irrational lenders come and go - mostly they go! — John G. Stumpf

Human relationships were so complicated and always veering in the direction of the irrational. — Michael D. O'Brien

A narrow hallway is all that separates rational from irrational, creativity from insanity, and intelligence from stupidity. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Courage is resistance against rational or irrational fear. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built. — Erich Fromm

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational. — A. N. Wilson

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. — Alan Lightman

Rational thinking is good, but irrational thinking creates wonders. — Debasish Mridha

But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. — Ayn Rand

People often expect irrational things from their inferiors. — Brandon Sanderson

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. — Karen DeCrow

I don't think it's irrational or too conservative of me to think, I never want to carry my baby into the county jail ever again.
Is it? — Joanna Gaines

The mind was rarely a rational thing when it came to the dark or the unknown. — Pooja Perumal

It's hard to confine an irrational woman in a rational pattern, so I had no idea really what was in her mind. — Leslie Ford

Thought is a primitive superstition. Reason is an irrational idea. — Ayn Rand

Fear is an irrational emotion that floats from object to object like a helium balloon that you touch with your fingertips. — James Lee Burke

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

I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously. — Jeanette Winterson

I am bundle of nerves riddled with irrational fears. — Tori Spelling

All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time. — Friedrich Engels

All great art contains an element of the irrational. — Edith Sitwell

Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world. — Oscar Wilde

There are real threats but there's a difference between recognizing real threats and an irrational kind of apocalyptic threat. — Peter Beinart

A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo

One of the jobs of advertising was to give the consumer rational reasons for their irrational purchases. — Liane Moriarty

Irrational judgements lead to new experience. — Sol LeWitt