Irrational Quotes - Page 5

• What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?

  Rowan Atkinson

  Atheist, Fear, Teaching

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• How do you know all this? Jeez, Tory, you’re a kid. Act like it. (Geary) (Tory reached out and punched her on the arm.) Ow! What was that for? (Geary) Unexpected and irrational emotional outbursts. Isn’t that what teenagers are supposed to do? Oh, and sulk. A lot. (Tory)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Teenager, Kids, Emotional

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• I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Echoes, Absurdity Of Life

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.21, Vintage

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• Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.

  Orson Scott Card

  Rationality

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.78, Macmillan

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• As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only excuse that offers for the middle-aged or elderly writer whose thoughts should more properly be turned to graver matters, occupying himself with the trivial concerns of imaginary people.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Real, Men, Occupy Yourself

  "Cakes And Ale".

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• Even though most people were disconnected from [travel ban], the moment amplified a fairly massive and somewhat irrational fear that exists in the populace at large.

  Peter van Agtmael

  People, Irrational Fear, Moments

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• It's interesting sometimes to read about the last days of past civilizations. It's hard not to notice during these readings that those last days were filled with completely irrational ideas and behaviors that could not be explained in any way outside of a mass collapse of reason.

  David Horowitz

  Reading, Past, Civilization

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Most societies wipe themselves out and it's interesting to read about the last days of past civilizations. You'll note that the last days of past civilizations were filled with idiotic, irrational ideas and behaviors that couldn't be explained by reason.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Past, Civilization, Ideas

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I am a superior form of human and I have absolutely no quirks or irrational impulses of any kind.

  Dave Barry

  Kind, Form, Quirks

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Addicts are ALWAYS irrational when it comes to their habits.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Habit, Addict

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don't mean escaping into dreams or into the irrational. I mean that I have to change my approach, look at the world from a different perspective, with a different logic and with fresh methods of cognition and verification.

  Italo Calvino

  Dream, Believe, Mean

  "Six Memos for the Next Millennium".

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• Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Dream, Real, Men

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2015). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.11, Xist Publishing

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• The soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you. The soul would be no good to the devil if it could be destroyed. And it is not lost when placed in Satan's care, as is so often said. He always know exactly how to put his finger on it.

  Joe Hill

  Soul, Devil, Would Be

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• I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth ... that they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent; not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which only can make them be esteemed wise men.

  Daniel Defoe

  Wise, Men, Fool

  Daniel Defoe (2015). “Robinson Crusoe”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• If you're afraid of something, face it. Fear is irrational. The only way to conquer your fear is to stand next to it.

  Jennifer Armintrout

  Way, Next, Faces

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• What I'm saying is that I'm trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that's neveer a good sign.

  Stephen King

  Feelings, Trying, Reason

  Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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• Eiffel saw his Tower in the form of a serious object, rational, useful; men return it to him in the form of a great baroque dream which quite naturally touches on the borders of the irrational ... architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.

  Roland Barthes

  Dream, Men, Expression

  Roland Barthes (1997). “The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies”, p.6, Univ of California Press

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• Our lives are more like fragmentary dreams than the enactments of conscious selves. We control very little of what we most care about; many of our most fateful decisions are made unbeknownst to ourselves. Yet we insist that mankind can achieve what we cannot: conscious mastery of its existence. This is the creed of those who have given up an irrational belief in God for an irrational faith in mankind.

  John Gray

  Dream, Self, Decision

  "Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (The Deception: At the Masked Ball)". Book by John Gray (p. 38), August 29, 2002.

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• 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

  Wall, Feelings, Mind

  Milan Kundera (1974). “Laughable Loves”

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• The irrational thoughts were the ones with the power to burn holes in your gut.

  Keith Ablow

  Holes, Guts

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• And then there is Pythagoras. The legend is that the founder of theoretical mathematics was so outraged when one of his students, the haplessly gifted Hippasus, discovered irrational numbers that he sent the poor fellow out on a raft to drown, initiating a venerable tradition of professors mistreating their graduate students.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Irrational Numbers, Legends, Students

  Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.31, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• We must present a national persona of being irrational and vindictive, because that's going to terrify people. And then, they'll back off. And this is not [Donald] Trump, this is [Bill] Clinton. It's not [Richard] Nixon, you know. We have to be irrational and vindictive, because that's going to frighten people.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Bills, Clinton

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• We have to be irrational and vindictive, because that's going to frighten people. And we have to maintain this for years. And then we'll be able to carry out the actions that we want to carry out.

  Noam Chomsky

  Years, People, Want

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Mystery, Reason, Rational

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• For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.

  Josh McDowell

  World, Philosopher, Good Christian

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