Quotes About Irrational

reasonable people have difficulty conceiving and understanding unreasonable behavior.

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the irrational truth. It's good for us when, in spite of all of the sober, pragmatic, and even correct arguments that war is sometimes necessary someone says: war is large-scale murder, us at our worst, the stupidest guy doing the cruelest thing to the weakest being.

A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for the instinctual tribes must be satisfied.

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.

Dreams were so irrational, so gray with a nameless terror . . . and yet, too, so haunting and beautiful.

soft love and hope and anybody who's never done this is crazy—Because a new love affair always gives hope, the irrational mortal loneliness is always crowned

War is an irrational, counter-productive way to handle conflicts.

Only in the irrational and unknown direction can we come to wisdom again

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.

By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There's no specific line, as you know.

When you get into a fight with your partner or a friend, you usually have some weird, specific thing that you hold on to that you fight about that has nothing to do with what's going on.

I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.

Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel.

No matter how smart we get, there is always this deep irrational part that makes us potential hosts for self-replicating information.

We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas. Like mass hysteria. Or a tune that gets into your head that you keep on humming all day until you spread it to someone else. Jokes. Urban legends. Crackpot religions. Marxism. No matter how smart we get, there is always this deep irrational part that makes us potential hosts for self-replicating information.

He has passed into the realm of irrational things that you must simply accept, and in the Philippines this is a nearly infinite domain

Thus did I begin to see, or thought I began to see, how the British Conservatives kept the fierce, irrational loyalty of those whom they exploited.

I've realized now that hope almost never goes together with reason. It's something quite irrational and instinctive.

This was a vital part of the process of simple realization, the realization that knowledge led either to wholesale illusion or to irrational depression.

And that was why she was angry. Because they weren't giving her a reason to be angry. Feelings. Were. Stupid.

Division may be rational or irrational. Dominance either seems or is justified. Difference is.

Wall Street—so named from a street in ancient New York, where was situated the stock exchange, and where the irrational organization of society permitted underhanded manipulation of all the industries of the country.

I believe it's called 'irrational reasoning.' It's what happens to people when they're scared