#irrational

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

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Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

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Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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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. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

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

— Bill Cosby

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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

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I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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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

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Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

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The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter. ↗

— Sting

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