“ by overcoming the dark passions, the hero symbolizes our ability to control the irrational savage within us. ”
- Joseph Campbell- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Being a sports fan is a complex matter, in part irrational but not unworthy a relief from the seriousness of the real world, with its unending pressures and often grave obligations. ”
- Richard Gilman- Copy
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“ We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of men and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us. ”
- Thomas Merton- Copy
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“ It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream. ”
- Edgar Allan Poe- Copy
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“ However, there is a reality that must not be forgotten: the Kurdish people and the pesh merga have a long history of struggle and its irrational to deprive them of their weapons. ”
- Jalal Talabani- Copy
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“ The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories. ”
- Margaret Walker- Copy
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“ Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit. ”
- Bill Cosby- Copy
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“ The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. ”
- W. S. Ross- Copy
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“ The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. ”
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt- Copy
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“ I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously. ”
- Jeanette Winterson- Copy
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“ It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning. ”
- Agnes Repplier- Copy
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“ People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. ”
- Harold Ross- Copy
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“ It may be irrational of me, but human beings are quite my favorite species. ”
- Doctor Who- Copy
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“ Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. ”
- George Jean Nathan- Copy
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“ Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. ”
- Thomas H. Huxley- Copy
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“ The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ A rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those … truths were really there, would be an irrational rule. ”
- William James- Copy
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“ Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand. ”
- Gunther Grass- Copy
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“ As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. ”
- Cyril Connolly- Copy
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“ It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational. ”
- Maurice Merleau Ponty- Copy
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“ The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from. ”
- Joanna Baillie- Copy
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“ The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational. ”
- A. N. Wilson- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as a man is free to attempt to survive by any random means, as a parasite, a moocher or a looter, but not free to succeed at it beyond the range of the moment - so he is free to seek his happiness in any irrational fraud, any whim, any delusion, any mindless escape from reality, but not free to succeed at it beyond the range of the moment not to escape the consequences. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
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“ We must have research for peace … It would embrace the outstanding problems of morality. The time has come for man's intellect, his scientific method, to win over the immoral brutality and irrationality of war and militarism … Now we are forced to eliminate from the world forever this vestige of prehistoric barbarism, this curse to the human race. ”
- Linus Carl Pauling- Copy
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