Irrational Part

Famous quotes containing the words irrational and/or part:

    “It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.”
    —Northrop Frye (b. 1912)

    “The boxer’s ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)