Irrational Part

Famous quotes containing the words irrational and/or part:

    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)

    However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part of me, but a spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you. When the play, it may be the tragedy, of life is over, the spectator goes his way. It was a kind of fiction, a work of the imagination only, so far as he was concerned.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)