Irrationality Quotes
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Irrationality Quotes & Sayings
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The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.
— Max Weber
I think irrationality is one of the scariest things in the world.
— Marcia Gay Harden
Empathy is the sunlight to the vampire of culture.
— Stefan Molyneux
Irrationality loves company.
— Jeff Zentner
The real protagonist of scientifiction was science itself, conquering the dark forces of irrationality and ignorance.
— Steve Silberman
Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that saves us.
— Florida Scott-Maxwell
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.
— Theodor W. Adorno
To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.
— Christopher Hitchens
The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.
— Francis Bacon
The all-encompassing cure for cancer, heartbreak, irrationality, drug addiction, and every other ailment that plagues humanity?Fire. — V.K. McAllister
Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Freedom of religion is the only and only way towards universal peace. As long there is irrationality peace is impossible.
— M.F. Moonzajer
We must fight for the freedom of religion; because that is the only way we can stand against irrationality.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part in.
— Doug Stanhope
Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.
— Austin O'Malley
Irrationality is the square root of all evil
— Douglas Hofstadter
Statism ends with an eye roll.
— Stefan Molyneux
I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.
— Irvin Kershner
The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
An engineer cannot participate in irrationality ...
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
reasonable people often have difficulty anticipating irrationality from unreasonable people.
— Bobby Adair
A narrow hallway is all that separates rational from irrational, creativity from insanity, and intelligence from stupidity.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
That's right; put on the steam, fasten down the escape-valve, and sit on it, and see there you'll land.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.
— Martin Amis
I know I have nothing to worry about and I'm being irrational, but let me have my irrationality.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout
An atheist who is a statist is just another theist.
— Stefan Molyneux
Paradoxes only stump sane people. Nuts have irrational on our side.
— Brian Spellman
You get more irrationality within the family and in consumer behavior than you get, say, in the behavior of firms in their purchases.
— Ronald Coase
Priest is a fisherman and Holy Book is a fishook. We either refuse to be a fish or we burn in the frying pan of irrationality!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Facts do not fall in the face of discomfort.
— Stefan Molyneux
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
Following Mrs. Roosevelt in search of irrationality was like following a burning fuse in search of an explosive.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Irrationality is part of everyday rationale
— Elif Shafak
But that wasn't how I rolled. Prolonged irrationality wasn't in my wheelhouse. Recrimination was not my homeboy.
— Penny Reid
The rational reasons were all rationales for an underlying irrationality.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
A miracle entails a degree of irrationality-not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.
— Emmanuel Levinas
I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger, and I cannot admit the irrationality of love.
— Anne Rice
Many great ideas, great love stories, and great achievements are born from a healthy irrationality.
— Steve Maraboli
Irrationality interests me more than anything: sometimes it's very dangerous, but it can be incredibly beautiful.
— John Burnside
No rational response was possible. Her irrationality made it so. The terrible power, he thought, of illogic.
— Philip K. Dick
Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
— Bertrand Russell
It is better to make an irrational noise in a bush than in a desert.
— Duop Chak Wuol