75 Quotes About Irrationality
- Author Farshad Asl
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When we allow ourselves to ignore a rational option in favor of an irrational one, or perhaps an unjustified one, it’s like eating junk food. It fills the need for making a decision but does so with no decision at all. Just like junk food, it satiates the need to act, but it requires no action at all.
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- Author Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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In short, one may say anything about the history of the world--anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational. The very word sticks in one's throat.
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- Author Lynne Tillman
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I choose the irrational from a rational position. I’m positioning myself on Undo, undo even undoing. Un-think, because routines dull the mind, and you don’t see what’s in front of you. Familiarity breeds contempt, and also lack of in-sight and out-sight.
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- Author Dean Koontz
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The unthinking embrace of irrationality is literally madness. But embracing rationality while denying the existence of any mystery to life and its meaning — that is no less a form of madness than is eager devotion to unreason.
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- Author Terry Pratchett
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A stink. A stench. A foulness in her mind, dreadful and unforgiving. A compost of horrible ideas and rotted thoughts that made her want to take our her brain and wash it.
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- Author Doug Stanhope
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Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part in.
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- Author Lionel Suggs
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There are three things admiration affirms; the lack of autonomy, the senility of the mind, and the strength of desperation. Irrationality and inferiority are the progenitors of admiration.
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- Author Dan Ariely
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Wouldn't economics make a lot more sense if it were based on how people actually behave, instead of how they should behave?
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- Author Aldous Huxley
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You see, I'd behaved pretty badly. Losing my head about someone I didn't really love and hurting someone I did. Why is one so stupid?" "The heart has its reasons," said Will, "and the endocrines have theirs.
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