Irrationalism Quotes

#1. It may be laid down broadly that irrationalism, i.e., disbelief in objective fact, arises almost always from the desire to assert something for which there is no evidence, or to deny something for which there is very good evidence.

Bertrand Russell

#2. Rationalism is the idea that we can ever understand anything about the state of being. It's a deathtrip. It always has been ... And if rationalism is a deathtrip, then irrationalism might very well be a lifetrip ... at least until it proves otherwise.

Stephen King

#3. In philosophical terms, the opposite of rationalism is not irrationalism but empiricism, that is, a willingness to form beliefs on the basis of experience rather than from a priori deduction. Empirical evidence never yields the dogmatic certainty that accompanies logical deduction.

John Quiggin

#4. In a free society, skeptics are the watchdogs against irrationalism - the consumer advocates of ideas. Debunking is not simply the divestment of bunk; its utility is in offering a better alternative, along with a lesson on how thinking goes wrong.

Michael Shermer

#5. For action has no sense. It merely binds one to existence. All existence, however, has no sense. Evil is interpreted as that which leads to irrationalism: to the affirmation of means whose end is denied. A road to nonentity is the desideratum, hence all emotional impulses are regarded with horror.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. An honest and self-aware atheism, therefore, should proudly recognize itself as the quintessential expression of heroic irrationalism:

David Bentley Hart

#7. Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism
and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.

Stephen Jay Gould

#8. This is why the conflict between rationalism and irrationalism has become the most important intellectual, and perhaps even moral, issue of our time.

Karl R. Popper

#9. When women reach the age of maturity, Mother Nature sometimes overworks their frustration to the point of irrationalism. Like themiddle-aged man ... who finds himself looking longingly at a girl in her early twenties.

Mark Hanna

#10. The enemy of knowledge and science is irrationalism, not religion

Stephen Jay Gould

#11. Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism and moral nihilism.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#12. If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.

Stephen Jay Gould

#13. Miles is ... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#14. his heart made of stone.

Iain Lawrence

#15. It is very tempting, when you talk about the events of the past, to impose clarity and order upon what had neither one nor the other.

Rene Daumal

#16. I'm definitely an outdoorsy guy. I like hiking, outdoor workouts with body weight. But when it comes to getting it done, I can just get in the gym and pound it out.

Derek Theler

#17. Perhaps it only applies in the States, where emotional optimism is a constitutional duty

Julian Barnes

#18. I wish to show those who deny us Patriotism that we know how to die for our country and convictions.

Jose Rizal

#19. In fact, I kind of have the urge to fall asleep right now," Miles says. He lifts his eyes to meet mine. "Right here at the table.

Colleen Hoover

#20. And you're not going to tell me she didn't make a move on you. At least test the waters."
"The waters," he said, "were not receptive."
"If they had been, I'd have drowned her in them already.

J.D. Robb

#21. The United States wants a strong United Kingdom as a partner. And the United Kingdom is at its best when it's helping to lead a strong Europe.

Barack Obama

#22. Human history is one prolonged and painful limping. We invariably step with one foot on the rock of justice, and with the other, we sink into the mire of deceit and self-delusion.

Danail Hristov

#23. Eternal vigilance is only part of the price of freedom. The maturity to live with imperfections is another crucial part of the price of freedom.

Thomas Sowell

#24. I have no knowledge of anything

Tom Brady

#25. When my face is flushed with blood, it becomes red and obscene. It betrays at the same time, through morbid reflexes, a bloody erection and a demanding thirst for indecency and criminal debauchery.

Georges Bataille

#26. Yer timin stinks, he says.

Moira Young