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. George MacDonald Scottish Novelist More George MacDonald Quotes 1
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. George Jean Nathan American Editor More George Jean Nathan Quotes 0
Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words. Vladimir Nabokov American Novelist More Vladimir Nabokov Quotes 0
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 American Philosopher More George Santayana Quotes 0
The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories. Margaret Walker American Poet More Margaret Walker Quotes 0
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? Philip Zimbardo American Psychologist More Philip Zimbardo Quotes 0
Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all. Emile M. Cioran Romanian Philosopher More Emile M. Cioran Quotes 0
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. Cyril Connolly English Journalist More Cyril Connolly Quotes 0
Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit. Bill Cosby American Comedian More Bill Cosby Quotes 0
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 American Judge More Louis D. Brandeis Quotes 0
If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic. Albert Ellis American Psychologist More Albert Ellis Quotes 0
There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational. Albert Ellis American Psychologist More Albert Ellis Quotes 0
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. Benjamin Graham American Economist More Benjamin Graham Quotes 0
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! George Herman American Journalist More George Herman Quotes 0
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. William Kirby English Scientist More William Kirby Quotes 0
It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. Thomas Huxley English Scientist More Thomas Huxley Quotes 0
For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd. Josh McDowell American Writer More Josh McDowell Quotes 0
It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational. Maurice Merleau-Ponty More Maurice Merleau-Ponty Quotes 0
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 American Composer More Leo Ornstein Quotes 0
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. Pope Paul VI Italian Clergyman More Pope Paul VI Quotes 0
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. River Phoenix American Actor More River Phoenix Quotes 0
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. Edgar Allan Poe American Poet More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes 0
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. Victoria Pratt Canadian Actress More Victoria Pratt Quotes 0
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. Michael Scheuer American Public Servant More Michael Scheuer Quotes 0