Irrational Quotes - Page 17

• We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.

  George Santayana

  Should Have, Illusion, Abandon

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2015). “The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four”, p.136, MIT Press

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• Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims.

  Ayn Rand

  Pursuit, Whim

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.26, Penguin

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• A failure to understand something does not mean it is irrational. It may simply mean that it lies on the far side of our limited abilities to take things in and make complete sense of them.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Lying, Mean, Doe

  Alister E. McGrath (2014). “The Living God: A Guide for Study and Devotion”, p.97, Westminster John Knox Press

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• The plot details of B movies are irrational: accept that people do things that are contradictory, against their own best interests, have short term aims & limited attention span, and do incredibly stupid things while things blow up. Apart from things blowing up, this is just like the music industry.

  Robert Fripp

  Stupid, Blow, People

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• I like irrational things. I like scenarios where I can think, 'It would be great if at this point we could do x.' And there doesn't have to be a reason for 'x'.

  Jonathan Meades

  Thinking, Would Be, Reason

  Source: thequietus.com

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• This is a record I ended up having to make to get on to the next stage of my life. What I did was a desperate thing to do. I'm aware of the fact that it was irrational. I didn't mean to make it sound like it was my master plan. The tour had even been going all right, but I was just kind of fed up with the situation as it was, playing the same old rock and roll crap that everyone goes through, the general moaning when you really should be grateful that you don't work in the checkout counter at the grocery.

  Luke Haines

  Grateful, Mean, Rocks

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• There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition, the other with scorn for abstraction. The latter is just as irrational as the former is inartistic.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Intuition, Age

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• [Trump's worldview states] that, for example, women are incompetent as compared to men in business settings. That women in general are intellectually inferior and have to make up for that by using their sexuality to get ahead. That women of color are angry, irrational, lazy, and always ready to get into a fight for no reason. That men in the workplace can say incredibly racist and sexist things, and as long as they make more money than their competitors, the racist and sexist things they say and do are totally acceptable.

  Jennifer Pozner

  Fighting, Men, Color

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• When I stand on the edge of a cliff or right at the edge of a building or something, it's one of the few things that gives me kind of a deep, overwhelming, irrational fear where it affects my physiology.

  Chris Hadfield

  Giving, Irrational Fear, Cliffs

  "Chris Hadfield's Lessons from Life in Orbit". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. November 1, 2013.

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• We accept that people are irrational for good Darwinian reasons. But I don't think we should be so pessimistic as to think that therefore we're forever condemned to be irrational.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, People, Forever

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Horror is one of the few genres - romance and comedy are the other two that come to mind - that's all emotion-driven. It's not a rational genre, like science fiction is. It's irrational by nature. And it is capable of exploring all aspects of human experience.

  Stephen R. Bissette

  Two, Romance, Mind

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2009.

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• ... there is no such thing as a rational world and a separate irrational world, but only one world containing both.

  Robert Musil

  Life, World, Emotion

  Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. Luft (1995). “Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses”, p.88, University of Chicago Press

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• The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Running, Truth, Honesty

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• At my years, and with my disposition, or rather, constitution, one gets to care less and less for everything except downright goodfeeling. Life is so short, and so ridiculous and irrational (from a certain point of view) that one knows not what to make of it, unless--well, finish the sentence for yourself.

  Herman Melville

  Life, Views, Years

  Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). “Correspondence”, p.454, Northwestern University Press

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• The wind shifts like this:
  Like a human without illusions,
  Who still feels irrational things within her.

  Wallace Stevens

  Wind, Illusion, Feels

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.83, Vintage

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• If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and fury of acompletely irrational history or to endow history with the form of human reason.

  Albert Camus

  Character, Men, History

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.221, Vintage

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• The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act bored and above-it-all.

  Maureen Dowd

  Bored, Political, Insane

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• Since the Greeks, Western man has believed that Being, all Being, is intelligible, that there is a reason for everythingand that the cosmos is, finally, intelligible. The Oriental, on the other hand, has accepted his existence within a universe that would appear to be meaningless, to the rational Western mind, and has lived with this meaninglessness. Hence the artistic form that seems natural to the Oriental is one that is just as formless or formal, as irrational, as life itself.

  William Barrett

  Men, Hands, Greek

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• Superstition is the irrational belief that an object or behavior has the power to influence an outcome, when there's no logical connection between them. Most of us aren't superstitious - but most of us are a 'littlestitious.'

  Gretchen Rubin

  Connections, Outcomes, Superstitions

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• What good your beautiful proof on the transcendence of Pi: Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist?

  Leopold Kronecker

  Beautiful, Science, Irrational Numbers

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• Parenting is not logical. If it were, we would never have to read a book, never need a family therapist, and never feel the urge to call a close friend late at night for support after a particularly trying bedtime scene. . . . We have moments of logic, but life is run by a much larger force. Life is filled with disagreement, opposition, illusion, irrational thinking, miracle, meaning, surprise, and wonder.

  Jeanne Elium

  Running, Book, Night

  Jeanne Elium, Don Elium (2011). “Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman”, p.223, Celestial Arts

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• Life, from beginning to end, is fear. Yes, it is pain, yes, it is desire, but more than anything it is fear; a certain amount rational, an enormous amount irrational. All political cruelties stem from that overwhelming fear. To push back the threatening forces, to offer primitive sacrifices, to give up some in the hope that others will be savedthat is the power struggle. That is the outsidedness of the poor, the feeble, the infantile. That is the outsidedness of Jews. That is the outsidedness of blacks. That is the outsidedness of women.

  Vivian Gornick

  Giving Up, Pain, Fear

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• Nothing goes on forever. I think that's one of the illusions of life. When I talk about my life being an extension of my dreams and fantasies, there's a tendency to think of them as immature. I live in a mature world. The majority of the people in this society live with delusions and illusions much more irrational and hurtful than mine. They deal with mortality, with fantasies relating to heaven and hell, and they don't really deal with their problems at all.

  Hugh Hefner

  Dream, Thinking, People

  "Media: Rabbit is Rich". Interview with Jonathan Roberts, www.interviewmagazine.com. December, 1985.

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• North Koreans are irrational to some extent, but I don't think they're totally irrational. I think they watch American cable channels. I think they watch the European cable channels. I think they, their decision makers keep up more than we know. And I think they want us to think they're a little crazy.

  William J. Clinton

  Crazy, Thinking, Decision

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• There are irrational fears. If you see a woman wearing a hijab and fear is your first thought, something's really wrong.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Firsts, Hijab, Irrational Fear

  Source: www.pbs.org

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