#irrational

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

— Thomas Huxley

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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

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

— Emile M. Cioran

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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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The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There's no specific line, as you know. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

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I think life's an irrational obsession. ↗

— Sean Penn

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I have thought sometimes that the sanest people, the people who are just very balanced, very happy, are probably lower achieving than other people. My kind of irrationality happens to be fear or anxiety. ↗

— Jon Ronson

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The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape. ↗

— George Santayana

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