Irrational Quotes

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.

You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual!

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

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.

I have irrational fears, and they all go back to losing my father as a kid. I've never gotten over it.

You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime.

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.

Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

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

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.

I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people - will say it's irrational because violence is irrational.

Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.

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.

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

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.

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational.

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.

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

When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard.

Bin Laden does reprehensible activities, and we should surely take care of that by killing him as soon as we can. But he's not an irrational man. He's a very worthy enemy. He's an enemy to worry about.

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

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

I still believe that any country understands that if they use nuclear weapons, they will be wiped out of existence. They could be irrational in many ways, but I don't think they're irrational to the point that they're ready to annihilate their own country.

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

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.