Irrational Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.