Quotations about

Irrationality

It’s odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as utopian don’t hesitate to proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for going to war: to stamp out terrorism, install democracy, eliminate fascism, and, most entertainingly, to “rid the world of evildoers.”

—Arundhati Roy

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

—Thomas H. Huxley

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

—Michel de Montaigne