Irrational Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior.

I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? A lot of times, it's quick action and no fear, and sometimes it's irrational fear. You don't always know.

I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?

I am bundle of nerves riddled with irrational fears.

It's the irrational things that interest me.

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

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

I think life's an irrational obsession.

I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

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

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.

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.