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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

Good intentions are ubiquitous in politics; what is scarce is accurate beliefs. — Bryan Caplan

In daily life, reality gives us material incentives to restrain our irrationality. But what incentive do we have to think rationally about politics? — Bryan Caplan

Who can explain life? Who can understand it? Like cats, we just do what we do. — Marty Rubin

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

Atheism, which people have tried to for hundreds of years as 'the ways of reason and science,' is proving to be mere irrationality and ignorance. — Harun Yahya

Dada rejected reason and logic, prizing nonsense, irrationality and intuitio — Dona Budd

The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience. — Criss Jami

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

Man: an irrational being who imagines himself to be a rational one. — Marty Rubin

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

A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty of others. — Ayn Rand

Freedom of religion is the only and only way towards universal peace. As long there is irrationality peace is impossible. — M.F. Moonzajer

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

We must fight for the freedom of religion; because that is the only way we can stand against irrationality. — M.F. Moonzajer

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible. — Stanislaw Lem

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

The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology. — J.G. Ballard

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

Wouldn't economics make a lot more sense if it were based on how people actually behave, instead of how they should behave? — Dan Ariely

Never argue with the surreal; there's no winning against irrationality. — Kate Griffin

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

Fear in the absence of knowledge breeds irrationality.

We should always seek knowledge, even in the face of fear. — Biz Stone

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

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

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

If thou really believe in one God,
irrationality is subset of thou logic. — Toba Beta

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