#irrational

Bin Laden does reprehensible activities, and we should surely take care of that by killing him as soon as we can. But he's not an irrational man. He's a very worthy enemy. He's an enemy to worry about. ↗

— Michael Scheuer

#activities #bin #care #does #enemy

We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

#arrogance #behavior #demonstrate #irrational #must

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awoke - Aye! and what then? ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#flower #irrational #romanticism #dreams

Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food. ↗

— Austin O'Malley

#irrationality #memory #food

To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#logic #rationalisation #reason #september- #iraq

Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely loyal. He hated passionately and irrationally. ↗

— George Woodcock

#full #got #grievances #hated #irrationally

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! ↗

— George Herman

#adult #concept #emotion #first #handling

I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people - will say it's irrational because violence is irrational. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#because #been #i #i think #irrational

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#harmful #held #irrationally #may #more

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

— Thomas Huxley

#beliefs #call #extremely #forgotten #grounds