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Irrational Quotes

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

Authors on Irrational Quotes: Albert Ellis George Santayana Dan Ariely Capers Jones Keith Rabois Sri Aurobindo Charlie Chaplin Maurice Merleau-Ponty Jack Parsons Scott Adams Edward Abbey Friedrich Engels Iggy Azalea Walter Lippmann Barry Commoner Hedi Slimane Robert Reich Alexander Girard Colin Fletcher Melissa de la Cruz Gary Yourofsky Sean Penn Carroll Quigley Lillian Hellman Orson Scott Card R. C. Sproul Edith Sitwell Helen Fisher Robert Todd Carroll Ayn Rand Alan Greenspan Michel Onfray Harrison Birtwistle
2.
There is nothing quite so gentle, deep, and irrational as running--and nothing quite so savage, so wild.
Bernd Heinrich

3.
Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.
Dan Ariely

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Fashion somehow, for me, is purely and happily irrational.
Hedi Slimane

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All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
Friedrich Engels

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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
Jonathan Edwards

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All great art contains an element of the irrational.
Edith Sitwell

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Who is more irrational, the guy who believes in a God he can't see, or a guy who's offended by a God he doesn't believe in?
Brad Stine

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Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.
R. C. Sproul

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Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.
Vladimir Nabokov

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Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
Lillian Hellman

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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
Alan Greenspan

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Grace is the offer of God's ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
John Ortberg

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I am a reasonable and sane functionalist tempered by irrational frivolity.
Alexander Girard

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I think life's an irrational obsession.
Sean Penn

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There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.
Albert Ellis

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Addicts are ALWAYS irrational when it comes to their habits.
Gary Yourofsky

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

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To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
Sri Aurobindo

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

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Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built.
Erich Fromm

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If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.
Albert Ellis

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Research – and using what you learn from it to analyze every situation – is what separates being unreasonable from being irrational.
Eli Broad

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Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other language.
Robert A. Heinlein

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-But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.
Alan Lightman

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They did it for love, and sometimes love makes us do the irrational .. even the inexcusable.
Melissa de la Cruz

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Sleep is the gateway to those nightly visitations of the irrational.
Gayle Greene

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Religion is an irrational construct.
Michel Onfray

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People are irrational - and predictably so.
Dan Ariely

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

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Irrational beliefs are culturally accepted delusions.
Robert Todd Carroll

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An exotic and irrational entertainment, which has been always combated, and always has prevailed.
Samuel Johnson

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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.
George Santayana

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.
Gunter Grass

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It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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When you're in the throes of this romantic love, it's overwhelming - you're out of control, you're irrational, you're going to the gym at 6 A.M. every day - Why? Because she's there.
Helen Fisher

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To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.
Epictetus

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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

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Irrational lenders come and go - mostly they go!
John G. Stumpf

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I have no phobias. Phobias are irrational. My fears are rational and CAREFULLY CULTIVATED, like roses.
Maureen Johnson

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Excessive or irrational schedules are probably the single most destructive influence in all of software
Capers Jones

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Irrational judgements lead to new experience.
Sol LeWitt

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Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant
Charlie Chaplin

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If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesnt get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.
Lars Peter Hansen

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If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.
Edward Abbey

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People will assign irrational importance to almost anything in quotes on top of a pleasant image
Colin Fletcher

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In the '90s it was irrational exuberance. Now it may be irrational doom and gloom.
Robert Reich

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I didn't ask you to catch me!" "You're so delightful when you're irrational. Of course I'm going to catch you." He slid a hand behind her nape and kissed her again. "It's what I do.
Shana Abe

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I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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It seems like topsy-turvyland to make reason serve the irrational. Yet that is just what it has always done, and ought always to do.
Walter Lippmann