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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

Future Look Think Dream

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

Work Wisdom Sick Body

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

See Something Human About

I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.

Me Political Problem My Own

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.

Religion Dating Better Nothing

The most important thing when you study hypnosis is that you learn that humans are irrational. Until you understand that, hypnosis is hard to do... For me, it was this great awakening to understand that humans are deeply irrational, and it's probably the greatest influence on me in terms of my writing.

Me You Great Understand

Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.

Pool Test Like Books

Artists are those people who sit at the intersection between the known and unknown, the rational and irrational, coming to terms with some of the confusing histories we, as artists, deal with.

People Sit Some Unknown

Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows.

Man City Space Violence

It's totally irrational, patently insane to condemn an entire race - to despise an entire nation - to vilify an entire religion.

Religion Nation Race Insane

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When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.

Character Thinking Reality Hypocrisy

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.

Karen Armstrong

Technology Light Knowledge Today

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

Parenting Past Parent Her

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

Forgotten Rational Call Beliefs

I have irrational fears, and they all go back to losing my father as a kid. I've never gotten over it.

Father Losing Never Go

The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.

Ending Matter More Us

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

Alone Men History Women

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

Men Women More Rational

If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.

Work Something Means Unrealistic

I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?

Philip Zimbardo

Good People Smart Sometimes

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

Life Decision Must Exist

I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

Jeanette Winterson

Think Seriously Foolish I Think

My job is making irrational people do rational things.

People Job Things Making

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.

Freedom Religion Person Race

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

Vladimir Nabokov

Poetry Words Through Rational

You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.

Life You Control Bread

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