Quotes of: Irrational Keyword

The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.

Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

I’m assuming you have a reason behind this irrational need to conform to this institution." (Eric)

Minutes Before Sunset

These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency.

Oryx and Crake

There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.

Psychoanalysis and Religion

The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help, they have no hope.

Russell Brand

It's okay to be absurd, ridiculous, and downright irrational at times; silliness is sweet syrup that helps us swallow the bitter pills of life.

Richelle E. Goodrich

What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

Thomas Henry Huxley

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.

Leo Ornstein

I learned much too late that what you called love was nothing but a desperate and irrational fear of a life lived alone.

Beau Taplin

For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.

Josh McDowell

Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly.

Jacques Lacan

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

The irrational, the human nostalgia, and the absurd that is born of their encounter - these are the three characters in the drama that must necessarily end with all the logic of which an existence is capable

Albert Camus

It is wise for people to learn how to control their emotions instead of allowing it to overwhelm them and making them behaves irrational.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

A. N. Wilson

It's a bit like sympathetic magic in a way: the usual Western presumption that 'primitive' rituals mimic what they desire to achieve--that phallic objects might be believed to increase male potency and playacting rainfall might somehow bring it about...

Bicycle Diaries

Troubles always seemed more severe after the sun went down. Even irrational worries and fears could seem perfectly logical at midnight.

Broken Dreams

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Louis D. Brandeis

For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion, let alone an exercise in irrational conspiracy theorizing. Rather, it speaks to a social reality about which ...

Tim Wise

Are you imperfect, romantically irrational, ridiculously fearless, and utterly illogical? You're my ideal reader, friend, partner. I'm your fan.

iPooKee

... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.

The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist