Quotes Tagged With :irrationality

Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up....

Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from....

A stink. A stench. A foulness in her mind, dreadful and unforgiving. A compost of horrible ideas and....

I am like a machine being driven to excessive rotations: the bearings are incandescing and, in a minute,....

It is better to make an irrational noise in a bush than in a desert.

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

No evidence is powerful enough to force acceptance of a conclusion that is emotionally distasteful.

I sensed that if I were ever to meet [Senator Orrin] Hatch face-to-face there would be little that we....

The idea of original sin--of guilt with no possibility of innocence, no freedom of choice, no alternatives--inherently....

When I argue with devout statists, sometimes other voluntaryists tell me that I'm wasting my time, opining....