Irrational Quotes - Page 23

• No, but I've never been one for wise ideas," he says. "I believe in irrational, fleeting decisions that keep life interesting. And life needs to be interesting because we've got only one of them to live.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Wise, Believe, Ideas

  Jessica Sorensen (2013). “The Redemption of Callie and Kayden”, p.42, Hachette UK

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

  Aristotle

  Soul, Division, Common

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.23, Wordsworth Editions

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• There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.

  Aristotle

  Soul, Principles, Elements

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.23, Wordsworth Editions

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• The soul has two parts, one rational and the other irrational. Let us now similarly divide the rational part, and let it be assumed that there are two rational faculties, one whereby we contemplate those things whose first principles are invariable, and one whereby we contemplate those things which admit of variation.

  Aristotle

  Two, Soul, Principles

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.145, Wordsworth Editions

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• In [the soul] one part naturally rules, and the other is subject, and the virtue of the ruler we maintain to be different from that of the subject; the one being the virtue of the rational, and the other of the irrational part. Now, it is obvious that the same principle applies generally, and therefore almost all things rule and are ruled according to nature.

  Aristotle

  Soul, Principles, Different

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Politics”, p.28, Aeterna Press

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• Faith is not a blind, irrational conviction. In order to believe, we must know what we believe, and the grounds on which our faith rests.

  Charles Hodge

  Believe, Order, Blind

  Charles Hodge (2014). “Systematic Theology”, p.1289, Ravenio Books

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• Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

  Mark Twain

  Religion, Atheism, Impossible

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• When I was in high school I asked myself at one point: "Why do I care if my high school's team wins the football game? I don't know anybody on the team, they have nothing to do with me... why am I here and applaud? It does not make any sense." But the point is, it does make sense: It's a way of building up irrational attitudes of submission to authority and group cohesion behind leadership elements. In fact it's training in irrational jingoism. That's also a feature of competitive sports.

  Noam Chomsky

  Sports, Football, Attitude

  "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media". Documentary, Biography, War, www.imdb.com. 1992.

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• Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Children, Ignorance, Racism

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.44, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Many bodybuilders sell themselves short. Erroneously attributing their lack of satisfactory progress to a poverty of the requisite genetic traits, instead of to their irrational training and dietary practices, they give up training. Don't make the same mistake

  Mike Mentzer

  Giving Up, Mistake, Practice

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• Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.

  R. C. Sproul

  Ideas

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• I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense, but not irrational, nor naïve - because art takes us and makes us take a journey beyond price, beyond cost, into bearing witness to the world as it is and as it should be. Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

  Toni Morrison

  Art, Journey, Cost

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from May 29, 2013

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• If other people do not understand our behavior-so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being 'asocial' or 'irrational' in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them.

  Erich Fromm

  Hurt, Eye, Long

  Erich Fromm (1992). “The art of being”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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