75 Quotes About Irrationality

Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as already happened, where obstacles dissolve under the weight of desire, and where reality has vanished entirely.

Sanity is not about confrontation. It's about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying "no" to crazy people, not about inviting them in and then hoping that confrontations are going to make them sane.

Man is the most irrational of beings, because his imagination is always deceiving him about reality.

Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal.

VLADIMIR: I missed you . . . and at the same time I was happy. Isn't that a strange thing?ESTRAGON: (shocked). Happy?VLADIMIR: Perhaps it's not quite the right word.ESTRAGON: And now?VLADIMIR: Now? . . . (Joyous.) There you are again . . . (Indifferent.) There we are again. . .(Gloomy.) There I am again.

A narrow hallway is all that separates rational from irrational, creativity from insanity, and intelligence from stupidity.

Facts do not fall in the face of discomfort.

We have the right to our own beliefs but not our own facts’ is a common refrain the potency of which is rendered moot by the fact that inconvenient truths are dexterously circumnavigated by the spirited belief that knowing the truth is less valuable than the prize of a shared fiction.

We have the right to our own beliefs but not our own facts" is a common refrain the potency of which is rendered moot by the fact that inconvenient truths are dexterously circumnavigated by the spirited belief that knowing the truth is less valuable than the prize of a shared fiction.