Irrational Person Quotes

#1. The nightmare of the Cold War was nuclear weapons in the hands of an irrational person. I don't want to live through that nightmare.

Rudy Giuliani

#2. Expose an irrational belief, keep a person rational for a day. Expose irrational thinking, keep a person rational for a lifetime.

Bo Bennett

#3. The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the "creative" is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.

May Sarton

#4. It was because they were two parts of a whole. He did not belong to her. And she did not belong to him. It was never about belonging to someone. It was about belonging together.

Renee Ahdieh

#5. The only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. A person can only see their shadow if they awaken their eclectic soul. Self-understanding commences by admitting to the shadowy presence of the primordial unconsciousness. The unconscious mind is a magical concoction of logical and irrational thoughts and feelings.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#7. Guy knows all about women he don't know nothing about a woman.

John Steinbeck

#8. Because it is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational. The more cultivated a person is, the more intelligent, the more repressed, then the more he needs some method of channeling the primitive impulses he's worked so hard to subdue.

Donna Tartt

#9. In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

Elon Musk

#10. I've learned a lot about myself. Most of it is all right. When I add up the pluses and subtract the minuses, I still come out pretty well.

Betty Ford

#11. Every person defines reality in his own way. And every person figures that anybody who doesn't agree with him has got to be irrational.

Kristen D. Randle

#12. I'm quite a rational person, but I'm drawn to the irrational. I love coincidences, and I like to question that in fiction: 'Is this random, or is there something working underneath?'

Lisa Tuttle

#13. No better words than "thank you" have yet been discovered to express the sincere gratitude of one's heart; when the two words are sincerely spoken.

Alfred Armand Montapert

#14. The sensations of colors on the palette can be spiritual experiences.

Wassily Kandinsky

#15. Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.

Plato

#16. Voluntary euthanasia occurs only when, to the best of medical knowledge, a person is suffering from an incurable and painful or extremely distressing condition. In these circumstances one cannot say that to choose to die quickly is obviously irrational.

Peter Singer

#17. She did not know it, but she was actually in despair at the poverty of human emotions. Was it not irrational that there was nothing to do except weep when ten people died, just as one wept for but a single person?

Yukio Mishima

#18. Make love, take love, but you should give love. And try to live love.

George Harrison

#19. With the recent news that the State of Florida has agreed to purchase 181,000 acres of U.S. Sugar land, we have an historic opportunity for our larger restoration efforts and for the people of Florida. This too will not come without difficult challenges, but it reminds us that anything is possible.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#20. Animal totems, like the tiger, come from the Other Side to protect us while we are away from Home.

Sylvia Browne

#21. That's the best thing about friendship. It is a gift that cannot be lost. Only thrown away.

E.E. Knight

#22. Walls don't fall without effort.

Neal Shusterman

#23. There were many, many fine reasons not to go, but attempting to climb Everest is an intrinsically irrational act - a triumph of desire over sensibility. Any person who would seriously consider it is almost by definition beyond the sway of reasoned argument.

Jon Krakauer

#24. Running for president is hard. But it's good preparation. Because being president is a lot harder.

Mark McKinnon