Quotes about Irrationality

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Sanity is not about confrontation. It's about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying "no" to crazy pe — Stefan Molyneux
The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned — Thomas Henry Huxley, Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley
If thou really believe in one God,irrationality is subset of thou logic. — Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible. — Stanisław Lem
Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful. — Martin Amis, The Second Plane: 14 Responses to September 11
Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few pant — Terence McKenna
It is of the essence of any party to gain its orientation not from truths but from illusions which usually correspond to — Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great — Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays
A stink. A stench. A foulness in her mind, dreadful and unforgiving. A compost of horrible ideas and rotted thoughts tha — Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was right when he claimed, 'In politics, what begins in fear usually ends up in folly.' Politica — Barry Glassner, The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things
They are very good odds. And I know that my scientific brain believes them, if not my panic-ridden, maternal one. Those — Alanna Mitchell, Malignant Metaphor: Confronting Cancer Myths
Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as already happened, wher — Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio
I sensed that if I were ever to meet [Senator Orrin] Hatch face-to-face there would be little that we could agree upon. — Guillermo Jimenez
I sensed that if I were ever to meet [Senator Orrin] Hatch face-to-face there would be little that we could agree upon. — Guillermo Jimenez
In fact quite generally, commercial advertising is fundamentally an effort to undermine markets. We should recognize tha — Noam Chomsky, The Kind of Anarchism I Believe in, and What's Wrong with Libertarians
A narrow hallway is all that separates rational from irrational, creativity from insanity, and intelligence from stupidi — Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Then the true name for religion,' Fat said, 'is death.''The secret name,' I agreed. 'You got it. Jesus died; Asklepios d — Philip K. Dick
Facts do not fall in the face of discomfort. — Stefan Molyneux
The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futil — Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays