Irrationality Quotes

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

The idea of original sin--of guilt with no possibility of innocence, no freedom of choice, no altern...

In fact quite generally, commercial advertising is fundamentally an effort to undermine markets. We ...

Then the true name for religion,' Fat said, 'is death.''The secret name,' I agreed. 'You got it. Jes...

If you can’t define something you have no formal rational way of knowing that it exists. Neither can...

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up...

A stink. A stench. A foulness in her mind, dreadful and unforgiving. A compost of horrible ideas and...

No evidence is powerful enough to force acceptance of a conclusion that is emotionally distasteful.

It is of the essence of any party to gain its orientation not from truths but from illusions which u...

I am like a machine being driven to excessive rotations: the bearings are incandescing and, in a min...

Many governments have been founded upon the principle of the subordination and serfdom of certain cl...

I recollect once of having heard a gentleman from one of the northern States, of great power and abi...

Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from...

People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting b...

For my part, I prefer the ontological argument, the cosmological argument and the rest of the old st...

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the i...

All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their...

To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.

The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, i...

Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplish...

For twenty years and more the whole planet had been bombed, raped, ravaged, and gouged by people who...