We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.
Who would seriously want to listen to anything emanating from a quasi-chimpanzee's irrational bundle of mental accidents and energies?
You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do.
We accept that people are irrational for good Darwinian reasons. But I don't think we should be so pessimistic as to think that therefore we're forever condemned to be irrational.
To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.
How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
Dare to be irrational! - keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.
Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.
In the '90s it was irrational exuberance. Now it may be irrational doom and gloom.
I have no phobias. Phobias are irrational. My fears are rational and CAREFULLY CULTIVATED, like roses.
Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other language.
This 'oh let's hug it out' without taking any responsibility is exactly the problem. . . . We are not silly irrational little girls. We are running a serious business with investments from the biggest VCs in the Valley.
Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.
I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise of. . . shall we say, power.
Religion is an irrational construct.
Science fiction has always had a dark side. There has been a touch of the irrational and absurd in the genre from the very beginning.
It's not an irrational decision, I've been thinking about this for quite a while and maybe it'll be good for me [on his career break
The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.