Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.
People are irrational - and predictably so.
It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.
I have irrational fears, and they all go back to losing my father as a kid. I've never gotten over it.
Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.
I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.
I'm irrational about all things creative and I'm always late!
A man can only grow to a certain point when alone; to grow further you need some "irrational shocks", like a wife and children; a dramatic change to your own life.
It is sometimes rational to do what is wrong, and sometimes irrational to do what is right
I've long believed that anybody who is in the act of remembering childhood is a poet, because you're thinking back on times when you were making false models of the universe. Everything is kind of irrational and poetic then.
Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
An exotic and irrational entertainment, which has been always combated, and always has prevailed.
Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.
Building a company is basically taking all the irrational people you know. . . Putting them in one building and then living with them 12 hrs a day at least.
In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.
Flesh-eating by humans is unnecessary, irrational, anatomically unsound, unhealthy, unhygienic, uneconomic, unaesthetic, unkind and unethical. May I elaborate?
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
We expect others to act rationally even though we are irrational.
We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
There is nothing quite so gentle, deep, and irrational as running--and nothing quite so savage, so wild.