Irrational Quotes - Page 3
I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1995). “The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection”, p.9, Simon and Schuster
To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.
Epictetus (1926). “Discourses”
If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.
Edward Abbey (1996). “The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader”, p.53, Macmillan
Capers Jones (2008). “Applied Software Measurement: Global Analysis of Productivity and Quality”, p.403, McGraw Hill Professional
Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”
Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
"History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXX, section 30,
To advocate irrationality is to advocate that which is destructive to human life.
George H. Smith (2010). “Atheism: The Case Against God”, p.10, Prometheus Books
Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.83, Vintage
We expect others to act rationally even though we are irrational.
Scott Adams (1996). “The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions”
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.31, Atlantic Books Ltd