Irrational Quotes - Page 6

• I think it's ok to have wishes that conflict with each other - it's irrational to try to make them both come true, but not irrational simply to have them.

  Nomy Arpaly

  Thinking, Wish, Trying

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The idea of some contact of Donald Trump's office with the Russians to try to find areas of common ground is not irrational or unusual. The question is: Were you doing it in an appropriate way and through proper channels?

  Angus King

  Office, Trying, Common

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• People always ask us women about how we balance our lives. Rarely do they ever ask men this but we are asked this and it makes a lot of sense - balance, right? It sounds right. And of course you do have to balance because otherwise you'd go crazy. And you do have to find ways of doing things in a sensible manner, raising children and all those choices. But then there's a part of creativity which is irrational and which is obsessive and then that's also part of what we do. So, I don't think that's a bad thing. I think that's part of what makes someone good.

  Annette Bening

  Children, Crazy, Creativity

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I've long believed that anybody who is in the act of remembering childhood is a poet, because you're thinking back on times when you were making false models of the universe. Everything is kind of irrational and poetic then.

  Guy Maddin

  Thinking, Long, Childhood

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I studied law before I became a filmmaker, and I actually have a great belief in the justice system and the rule of law. I think it's the thing that separates us from animals. I really believe in the rule of law because it's an attempt to bring rational accountability to human behavior, which has a great capability of becoming irrational.

  Nick Broomfield

  Believe, Thinking, Animal

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I'm also looking for the psychological elements that fuel commodity culture. For example, if we imbue girls with deep insecurity about their bodies through images of an impossible ideal, we create a really vulnerable and avid consumer. If somebody feels that they're not OK without a certain product, you have a very deep and loyal market that will come back to the product again and again. Sometimes, this process is both rational and irrational.

  Lauren Greenfield

  Girl, Insecurity, Culture

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.

  Pope Paul VI

  Numbers, Order, Bread

  Pope Paul VI (2007). “Christian Values and Virtues”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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• I think life's an irrational obsession.

  Sean Penn

  Thinking, Obsession

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• This is real. This is the real mad man theory. We have to be irrational and vindictive, so people don't know what we're up to. This is not [Donald] Trump and [Steve] Bannon, it's from the [Bill] Clinton era.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, Men, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I am a child of the Enlightenment. I think irrational belief is a dangerous phenomenon, and I try to consciously avoid irrational belief. On the other hand, I certainly recognize that it's a major phenomenon for people in general, and you can understand why it would be. It does, apparently, provide personal sustenance, but also bonds of association and solidarity and a means for expressing elements of one's personality that are often very valuable elements. To many people it does that. In my view, there's nothing wrong with that.

  Noam Chomsky

  Children, Mean, Thinking

  Source: chomsky.info

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• My position is that we should not succumb to irrational belief.

  Noam Chomsky

  Belief, Should, Position

  Source: chomsky.info

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• While I think in principle people should not have irrational beliefs, I should say that as a matter of fact, it is people who hold what I regard as completely irrational beliefs who are among the most effective moral actors in the world, in many respects. They're among the worst, but also among the best, even though the moral beliefs are ostensibly the same.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, People, Principles

  Source: chomsky.info

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• Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.

  Sargent Shriver

  Prejudice, Racist, Illogical

  Sargent Shriver (1964). “Point of the lance”

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• What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

  Virginia Satir

  Parenting, Past, Parenthood

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• When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard.

  River Phoenix

  Kids, Vegetarianism, Bully

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational.

  Ron Perlman

  Self, Distortion

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• The process of inner self-examination brings about a knowledge that is as rigorous and supported by evidence as anything science has to offer. At the same time, this point of view redefines faith as a knowledge that is attained not only by intellectual means, but also through the rigorous development of the emotional side of the human psyche. Such emotional knowledge is unknown to the isolated intellect and has therefore been mistakenly labeled as "irrational."

  Jacob Needleman

  Mean, Emotional, Intellectual

  Source: www.watkinsmagazine.com

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• It seems to me that [my films] are talking about very simple and, I hope, universal feelings. And at the same time, even though they are set in a very weird world with elements that are irrational, at the same time, it's very close to an ordinary world. And I like to have this third feeling of mystery.

  Lucile Hadzihalilovic

  Simple, Ordinary World, Talking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which maintains itself without reason.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Lying, Character, Answers

  "On the Heights of Despair". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1934.

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• The soul may not be destroyed. The soul goes on forever. Like the number pi, it is without cessation or conclusion. Like pi it is a constant. Pi is an irrational number, incapable of being made into a fraction, impossible to divide from itself. So, too, the soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you.

  Joe Hill

  Irrational Numbers, Forever, Soul

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• We'll tell our secrets to the dark"-Adam "Okay"-Mia "So let's hear another of your irrational fears"-Adam "I'm scared of losing you"-Mia "I said 'irrational' fears. Because that's not gonna happen"-Adam "It still scares me"- Mia

  Gayle Forman

  Dark, Secret, Scare

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• Many of her thoughts were perfect syllogisms; unluckily they always remained thoughts. Only a few were irrational assumptions; but, unfortunately, they were the ones which most frequently grew into deeds

  Thomas Hardy

  Perfect, Deeds, Assumption

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Far from the Madding Crowd: Works of Hardy”, p.83, 谷月社

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• Beware: Ignorance Protects itself. Ignorance Promotes suspicion. Suspicion Engenders fear. Fear quails, Irrational and blind, Or fear looms, Defiant and closed. Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.

  Octavia Butler

  Ignorance, Blind, Quails

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Parable of the Talents”, p.244, Open Road Media

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• I steal into their dreams," he said. "I steal into their most shameful thoughts, I'm in every shiver, every spasm of their souls, I steal into their hearts, I scrutinize their most fundamental beliefs, I scan their irrational impulses, their unspeakable emotions, I sleep in their lungs during the summer and their muscles during the winter, and all of this I do without the least effort, without intending to, without asking or seeking it out, without constraints, driven only by love and devotion.

  Roberto Bolano

  Summer, Dream, Sleep

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• It seems to be very hard for people to live with riddles or to let them live, although one would think that life is so full of riddles as it is that a few more things we cannot answer would make no difference. But perhaps it is just this that is so unendurable, that there are irrational things in our own psyche which upset the conscious mind in its illusory certainties by confronting it with the riddle of its existence.

  Carl Jung

  Thinking, Differences, People

  Carl Gustav Jung, Gerhard Adler (1976). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung”, Bollingen

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