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Definition of Irrational |
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Irrational
Not rational; void of reason or understanding; as, brutes are irrational animals. Not according to reason; absurd; foolish. Not capable of being exactly expressed by an integral number, or by a vulgar fraction; surd; -- said especially of roots. See Surd. Related Definitions: Absurd, According, An, Are, As, Being, By, Capable, Especially, Exactly, Expressed, Foolish, Fraction, Integral, Irrational, Not, Number, Of, Or, Rational, Reason, Said, See, Surd, To, Understanding, Void, Vulgar |
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Irrational Quotations
Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit. Bill Cosby 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 There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational. Albert Ellis If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic. Albert Ellis 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 Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion. Scott Adams The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom. George MacDonald Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words. Vladimir Nabokov It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. Thomas Huxley Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. Louis D. Brandeis |
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Irrational Translations
irrational in German is irrational irrational in Latin is insensatus irrational in Norwegian is fornuftsstridig, irrasjonell irrational in Spanish is irracional |
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