Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.
Stanisław LemMots clés religion faith irrationality
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
Bertrand RussellMots clés fear insanity irrationality herd-mentality herd-behavior
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMots clés heart emotions irrationality romanticism
Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.
Austin O'MalleyMots clés memory crazy irrationality
All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions are entertained, for which their reason is unable to discover any adequate cause. The strength of a belief, when it is destitute of any rational foundation, seems, of itself, to furnish a new ground for credulity. We first admit a powerful persuasion, and then, from reflecting on the insufficiency of the ground on which it is built, instead of being prompted to dismiss it, we become more forcibly attached to it.
Charles Brockden BrownMots clés obsession irrationality perversity
I am like a machine being driven to excessive rotations: the bearings are incandescing and, in a minute, melted metal will begin to drip and everything will turn to nothing. Quick: get cold water, logic. I am pouring it over myself by the bucketload but the logic sizzles on the hot bearings and dissipates elusive white steam into the air.
Yevgeny ZamyatinMots clés logic irrationality
If thou really believe in one God,
irrationality is subset of thou logic.
Mots clés god logic irrationality
Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as already happened, where obstacles dissolve under the weight of desire, and where reality has vanished entirely.
Iain PearsMots clés imagination dreams wishes futility desires castles-in-the-air irrationality wishful-thinking cloud-cuckoo-land irreality phantasy
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The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.
Christopher HitchensMots clés reason society class struggle nirvana anxiety irrationality utopia
To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.
Christopher HitchensMots clés reason logic irrationality september-11-attacks rationalisation
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