#irrational

Intelligence is not limited to neural networks, Merrill. Indeed, half of human intelligence resides in our bodies outside our skulls…The genius of the irrational…This is the body’s intelligence, not the mind’s. Every living cell possess it…[the] indomitable will to survive. ↗

— David Marusek

#gut-instinct #intelligence #irrationality #mentars #sentience

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

— Christopher Hitchens

#logic #rationalisation #reason #september- #iraq

I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#accept #back #childhood #christmas #dose

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood? ↗

— Judith Viorst

#cost #does #foolish #how #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

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#exist #futility #irrational #life #most

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

— A. N. Wilson

#awakens #cannot #fact #hunger #insatiable

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#behave #beings #creatures #human #human beings

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#irrational #mysteries #perceived #poetry #rational