Irrationality Quotes

“If the masses can love without knowing why, they also hate without much foundation.”

“I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.”

“Man is many things, but he is not rational.”

“The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.”

“Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.”

“Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.”

“How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.”

“In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.”

“The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.”

“...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational.”

“The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.”

“If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.”

“Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.”

“Most illogical Irrational nature of our womanhood, That blushes one way, feels another way, And prays, perhaps another!”

“I cannot help it; reason has nothing to do with it; I love her against reason-but who would as soon love me for my own sake, as she would love the beggar at the corner.”

“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”

“If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and fury of acompletely irrational history or to endow history with the form of human reason.”