(53 quotes found)
“Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.”
Scott Adams
“Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs”
“A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied”
Cyril Connolly
“[They are] social pariahs, irrationally ostracized by their communities because of medically baseless fears of contagion.”
Stewart Oneglia
“When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard.”
River Phoenix
“The rational mind of man is a shallow thing, a shore upon a continent of the irrational, wherein thin colonies of reason have settled amid a savage world.”
Wilford O. Cross
“Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.”
Ashley Montagu
“To suggest that a gay kiss-in is a 'credible threat' is absurd, homophobic and irrational. The Pentagon is supposed to defend the Constitution, not turn it upside down.”
C. Dixon Osburn
“They're selling the good with the bad because they can. They're throwing everything out the window and that's irrational. But that's also when a bottom is formed.”
Brian Finnerty
“I just did something totally irrational.”
Amy Fisher
