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irrational
«What I conclude is that religion has nothing to do with experience or reason but with deep and irrational needs»
«The problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy - and it does not matter whether that philosophy is generally reasonable and high-minded or utterly bizarre and irrational - the powers of reason are s»
Author: Steve Allen
(Actor, Comic, Composer, Writer)
| About:
Mind,
Philosophy,
Problems,
Reason
| Keywords:
bizarre, formal, high-minded, irrational, untrained
«The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.»
Author: George MacDonald
| Keywords:
assumptions, demon, irrational, Or logic, reservation, Reservations, sympathize, sympathizes, sympathize with, temporary state
«You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.»
Author: Pope Paul VI
(Pope)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
artificial, banquet, banquets, diminish, guests, irrational, multiply, suffices, tables
«We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of men and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.»
«The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis»
«The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and slaves, like the workers among ants and bees, then the family would have been unnecessary. Such a division of labor would doubtless have involved evils of its own, but it would have obviated some drags and vexations proper to the family.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
division, division of labor, doubtless, drags, expedient, Expedients, irrational, nurses, pedagogue, Pedagogues, sexless, slave labor, unnecessary, vexations, workers
«The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
irrational, maniac, maniacs, miser, repulsive