Irrational Quotes

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.

We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of men and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.

We do, then, with all earnestness, though without reproaching our brethren, protest against the irrational and unscriptural doctrine of the Trinity. "To us," as to the Apostle and the primitive Christians, "there is one God, even the Father." With Jesus, we worship the Father, as the only living and true God. We are astonished, that any man can read the New Testament, and avoid the conviction, that the Father alone is God.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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

I think life's an irrational obsession.