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• It considered trying to explain their error to them, but what would be the use? They would only go away with hurt feelings. You can't always expect people, or squirrels, to be rational.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Hurt, Errors, Squirrels

  Thomas M. Disch (1986). “The brave little toaster: a bedtime story for small appliances”, Doubleday Books for Young Readers

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• Love is taking chances when every rational part of you screams, ‘Don’t risk it.’ Because it’s only when your heart has been ripped open that you get a chance to find the one person capable of making it whole.

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Heart, Love Is, Risk

  Sabrina Jeffries (2012). “A Lady Never Surrenders”, p.379, Simon and Schuster

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• I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work of art is ineffable, that it escapes by definition all rational understanding; why are they so eager to concede without a struggle the defeat of knowledge; and where does their irrepressible need to belittle rational understanding come from, this rage to affirm the irreducibility of the work of art, or, to use a more suitable word, its transcendence.

  Pierre Bourdieu

  Art, Struggle, Understanding

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• With regard to power, women don't have the vanity men have. They don't need to make power visible, they only want the power to give them the other things they want. Security. Food. Enjoyment. Revenge. Peace. They are rational, power-seeking planners, who think beyond the battle, beyond the victory celebrations. And because they have an inborn capacity to see weakness in their victims, they know instinctively when and how to strike. And when to stop. You can't learn that.

  Jo Nesbo

  Revenge, Thinking, Men

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• -But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.

  Alan Lightman

  New Experiences, Irrational, Rational Thought

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• You cannot control faeries. Can. Not. They aren't logical or rational. They don't obey the same laws (physical, social, emotional, traffic - you name it) that we do.

  Kiersten White

  Emotional, Law, Names

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• But she couldn't dismiss easily his light touch with her. No pushing or pressing, none of that herding and corralling bullshit, unlike any of her old boyfriends. And maybe who you fell for and who you eventually loved wasn't rational, no matter how hard you tried to list pros and cons and sum the results. You couldn't think your way through it, not all the way. Maybe just the scent of somebody carried more weight than everything else put together.

  Charles Frazier

  Thinking, Light, Bullshit

  Charles Frazier (2011). “Nightwoods: A Novel”, p.154, Random House

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• I have a feeling,’ he said, ‘I have a feeling that we were meant to be together. That we have fought the good fight, side by side, in the past or in the future, I do not know. I am a rational man, but I have learned the value of a good companion, and from the moment I clapped eyes on you, I knew I trusted you as well as I do myself. Yes, I want you with me.

  Neil Gaiman

  Eye, Fighting, Past

  Neil Gaiman, Steven-Elliot Altman, Brian Stableford (2003). “Shadows Over Baker Street”, p.15, Del Rey

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• I try to be rational and suppress the hope that this is for real, but hope has a way of closing its eyes to reason and it just keeps growing. 

  Tammara Webber

  Real, Eye, Trying

  Tammara Webber (2014). “Between the Lines: The Complete Series”, p.273, Tammara Webber

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• I thought I was getting better at this. I thought I was starting to make peace with being in love with a girl who despises me, but I don't think I'm so okay with it after all. Somewhere along the line I made a dark bargain with the universe without ever really being aware of it--a bargain that if I was allowed to see her, even if we never spoke, then I could live with that. And now a week without her has swallowed up all of my rational thinking. I feel like a junkie, sick for my next fix and not sure when it will come.

  Holly Black

  Girl, Being In Love, Dark

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• A wise man once told me- he’s a muslim by the way- that he has more in common with a jew than he does a fanatic of his own religion. He has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded Christian or a Buddhist or Hindu than he does with a fanatic of his own religion. In fact, he has more in common with a ration, reasonable-minded atheist than he does with a fanatic of his own religion

  Gregory David Roberts

  Christian, Wise, Buddhist

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• It has been said that the myth is a public dream, dreams are private myths. Unfortunately we give our mythic side scant attention these days. As a result, a great deal escapes us and we no longer understand our own actions. So it remains important and salutary to speak not only of the rational and easily understood, but also of enigmatic things: the irrational and the ambiguous. To speak both privately and publicly.

  Mary Zimmerman

  Dream, Giving, Important

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• It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost. That you were made of is metal to make virgins. Virginity, by being once lost, may be ten times found: by being ever kept, it is ever lost. ’Tis too cold a companion: away with ’t!

  William Shakespeare

  Loss, May, Firsts

  William Shakespeare (2011). “A Choice of Shakespeare's Verse”, p.21, Faber & Faber

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• What did it matter to me? Did I think that by making you rational about one thing, I could make you rational about everything? Maybe. Or maybe I just wanted to save you from your fears

  David Levithan

  Thinking, Matter, Wanted

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.45, Macmillan

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• The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks. How often have you been presented with an apparently rational explanation of something that works in all respects other than one, which is just that it is hopelessly improbable? Your instinct is to say, 'Yes, but he or she simply wouldn't do that.

  Douglas Adams

  Integrity, Impossible, Kind

  Douglas Adams (2014). “The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• Amor deliria nervosa: It affects your mind so that you cannot think clearly, or make rational decisions about your own well-being. Symptom number twelve.

  Lauren Oliver

  Thinking, Numbers, Decision

  Lauren Oliver, Veronica Roth, Lauren Conrad, Sara Shepard, Kiera Cass (2012). “Must-Read Teen Novel Sampler: For the Teen in All of Us: A Collection of Fabulous Reads”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think.

  Peter Watts

  Thinking, People, Feelings

  Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.166, Head of Zeus

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• I am a rational man, but haven't you heard? i'm also insane. It gives me a unique perspective on things.

  Derek Landy

  Unique, Men, Giving

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• Here's all I know: that the world is uncontrollable. Chaos reigns. That anything and everything might be possible. I won't subscribe to any rational system again. Nothing will bind me.

  Kenneth Oppel

  World, Anything And Everything, Might

  Kenneth Oppel (2012). “Such Wicked Intent: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein, Book Two”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• But the rational mind usually doesn't decide what emotions we "should" have !

  Daniel Goleman

  Should Have, Mind, Emotion

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• Our exclusive dependence on rational thought and language has obscured our natural ability to sense the flow of energy.

  Ilchi Lee

  Energy, Flow, Language

  Ilchi Lee (2002). “Brain Respiration: Making Your Brain Creative, Peaceful, and Productive”, p.49, Healing Society

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• Everybody drinks," she said calmly. The Only Rational One. "Your sister doesn't." When rolled her eyes. "Forgive me, but I'm not going to spend my college years sitting soberly in my dorm room, writing about gay magicians." "Objection," Cath said, reaching for a burrito.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Eye, Writing, Gay

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• In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have.

  Lee Iacocca

  Education, Teacher, Responsibility

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• Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings

  Immanuel Kant

  Happiness, Goal, Concepts

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• Since historical reconstruction is a rational process, only justified and indeed possible if it involves the human reason, what we call history is the mess we call life reduced to some order. pattern and possibly purpose.

  Geoffrey Elton

  Order, History, Historical

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