Irrational

Famous quotes containing the word irrational:

“How did reason enter the world? As is fitting, in an irrational way, accidentally. We will have to guess at it, like a riddle.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“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 Henry Huxley (1825–95)

“For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.”
—Edith Mendel Stern (1901–1975)