Irrational Quotes - Page 7

• One should believe only what can be chosen to be true or just. Irrational (or unjustified) beliefs should be avoided because they can have disastrous practical consequences.

  Mario Bunge

  Believe, Belief, Should

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• It is sometimes rational to do what is wrong, and sometimes irrational to do what is right

  Dennis Prager

  Sometimes, Rational

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• Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires - if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical?

  Ayn Rand

  Business, Men, Views

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1928, Penguin

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• The knowledge of God, the belief in God, is what I call an a-rational process. It's not rational - it doesn't proceed by scientific investigation - but it's not irrational because it doesn't contradict my reasoning process. It goes beyond it.

  George Coyne

  Knowledge Of God, Belief, Process

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A passion is a contranatural movement of the soul or an irrational love, or an blindfold hatred toward any material thing, or because of it: for example, for food, or for women, or for riches, or for worldly glory, or any other sensible thing; or for the sake of such things, as in a senseless hatred for someone on account of the things mentioned above.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Irrational judgements lead to new experience.

  Sol LeWitt

  New Experiences, Judgement

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• The truth is that no one who hasn't actually experienced the senseless chaos and violence of combat can possibly understand it, but those who have and who try to explain it to the rest of us are offering us a precious gift: a part of their soul that's been scorched in the flames of Hell. It's a little like trying to describe music to the deaf or color to the blind ... to make the irrational somewhat sensible, which is always confusing and frustrating, and ultimately futile.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Offering, Flames, Color

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• I'm not sure most of the people that get caught up in the middle of a bubble can be described as irrational. It seems pretty rational to buy a house and flip it in the next few weeks at a profit when that's been happening for along time.

  Paul Samuelson

  People, House, Next

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• Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

  Oscar Wilde

  World, This World

  An Ideal Husband act 1 (1895)

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• It's irrational to assume you can ever truly evaluate yourself as a good or bad human being. You will never have enough information.That "bad person" at work who torments you might be an excellent father to his kids. That other "bad person" at work who screwed up royally today? That error might later lead to a huge breakthrough. We will never have enough info to holistically evaluate a person and score them in totality as "bad" or "good."

  David D. Burns

  Father, Kids, Errors

  Source: time.com

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• For those of you who are seeing the spiritual life, I recommend these four daily practices: Spend time alone each day in receptive silence. When angry, or afflicted with any negative emotion, take time to be alone with God. (Do not talk with people who are angry; they are irrational and cannot be reasoned with. If you or they are angry, it is best to leave and pray.) Visualize God's light each day and send it to someone who needs help. Exercise the body, it is the temple of the soul.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Exercise, Practice

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• While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as such, of Political Rights freely secured to White men, is monstrously unjust and irrational.

  Horace Greeley

  Men, Rights, White Man

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• The voice of reason is inaudible to irrational people.

  Mardy Grothe

  Voice, People, Reason

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• Behind every rational and irrational force in human society there is a social mechanism which determines where it is to appear and what forms it is to take.

  Karl Mannheim

  Social, Form, Force

  Karl Mannheim (2013). “Man & Soc Age Reconstructn”, p.65, Routledge

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• One may rationally stick to a degenerating research programme until it is overtaken by a rival and even after. What one must not do is to deny its poor public record... It is perfectly rational to play a risky game: what is irrational is to deceive oneself about the risk.

  Imre Lakatos

  Games, Play, Risk

  Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie (1980). “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers”, p.117, Cambridge University Press

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• The techniques of kitsch, which are based on imitation, are rational and operate according to formulas; the remain rational even when their result has a highly irrational, even crazy, quality.

  Hermann Broch

  Crazy, Quality, Technique

  Hermann Broch (2002). “Geist and Zeitgeist: Six Essays by Hermann Broch”, Counterpoint LLC

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• So let's set the record straight. Faith is not the opposite of reason. The opposite of faith is unbelief. And reason is not the opposite of faith. The opposite of reason is irrationality. Do some Christians have irrational faith? Sure. Do some skeptics have unreasonable unbelief? You bet. It works both ways.

  Greg Koukl

  Christian, Opposites, Records

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• Naturally, our own irrational demands strike us as having the force of needs, while other people's needs strike us as capricious indulgences.

  Daphne Merkin

  People, Needs, Demand

  Daphne Merkin (2014). “The Fame Lunches: On Wounded Icons, Money, Sex, the Brontës, and the Importance of Handbags”, p.229, Macmillan

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• We have to be the people who stand up and say look, vigilance is good and prudence is good. But a kind of irrational fear that leads itself to demagogic rhetoric is something that we have to say no - no, we're not going to go there.

  Russell D. Moore

  People, Looks, Irrational Fear

  "Round-Table On Refugees: How People Of Faith Are Navigating The Crisis". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 21, 2015.

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• The point is that religion puts a value on irrationality, which makes it the perfect tool for promoting irrational beliefs like misogyny. Other ideologies can be challenged with evidence and reason, but religion is allowed a pass by most people. And that's why it's especially dangerous.

  Amanda Marcotte

  People, Perfect, Tools

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• It would be impossible to accept naturalism itself if we really and consistently believed naturalism. For naturalism is a system of thought. But for naturalism all thoughts are mere events with irrational causes. It is, to me at any rate, impossible to regard the thoughts which make up naturalism in that way and, at the same time, regard them as a real insight into external reality...If it is true, then we can know no truths. It cuts its own throat.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Cutting, Events

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.144, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Any time you do anything different in this life, it's risky. But I've only done things differently, and it's gotten me quite far. If you want to make a splash, you've got to step out on that ledge and jump. And I could land flat on my face and it would be the biggest nightmare of my life. I'm willing to risk it. I want to help change the way male chefs see females. I want to show them that, yes, we're emotional and, yes, sometimes we make irrational decisions, but we're passionate about what we do, and that passion will propel us to the next level.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Passion, Emotional, Decision

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• The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.

  Sting

  Matter, Worried, Millennium

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• In order to develop normally, a child requires progressively more complex joint activity with one or more adults who have an irrational emotional relationship with the child. Somebody's got to be crazy about that kid. That's number one. First, last and always.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Children, Crazy, Kids

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• I saw that evil was impotent—that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real—and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of the good to serve it.

  Ayn Rand

  Real, Evil, Triumph

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.170, Penguin

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