Illogical Quotes

“To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.
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― Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.

“Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.”
― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices: Third Series

“Together, we form a necessary paradox; not a senseless contradiction.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Not the “be yourself” line. I loathe that line. As if Myself and Tic have met before and gotten along, so all I have to do is make sure Myself is there this time. So illogical.”
― Kasie West, The Distance Between Us

“The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“The inconsistencies that haunt our relationships with animals also result from the quirks of human cognition. We like to think of ourselves as the rational species. But research in cognitive psychology and behavioral economics shows that our thinking and behavior are often completely illogical. In one study, for example, groups of people were independently asked how much they would give to prevent waterfowl from being killed in polluted oil ponds. On average, the subjects said they would pay $80 to save 2,000 birds, $78 to save 20,000 birds, and $88 to save 200,000 birds. Sometimes animals act more logically than people do; a recent study found that when picking a new home, the decisions of ant colonies were more rational than those of human house-hunters.
What is it about human psychology that makes it so difficult for us to think consistently about animals? The paradoxes that plague our interactions with other species are due to the fact that much of our thinking is a mire of instinct, learning, language, culture, intuition, and our reliance on mental shortcuts.”
― Hal Herzog, Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals

“There is a thing called knowledge of the world, which people do not have until they are middle-aged. It is something which cannot be taught to younger people, because it is not logical and does not obey laws that are constant. It has no rules.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“We are raised in a society where we are taught to believe a more logical reason for an illogical happening rather than the illogical reason for something which may be of the unknown, hence, why the logical answer is illogical to the logical person.”
― Nicholas A. McGirr, The Growing Dim Project

“Yo, thats illogical I cant have it!”
― Nick Jonas

“Too many people are willing to die for the very thing that’s killing them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“No, seriously," Mark continued. "Once you've been involved for a while, do your charity work in some third world toilet, they start letting you in on some of the bigger secrets to Responsivism, and how the knowledge will save you." "Go on," Juan said to indulge him. Murph might be flakey, but he had a topflight mind.

"Ever heard of 'brane theory?" He'd already talked with Eric about it so only Stone didn't return a blank stare. "It's right up there with string theory as a way of unifying all four forces in the universe, something Einstein couldn't do. In a nutshell, it says our four-dimensional universe is a single membrane, and that there are others existing in higher orders of space. These are so close to ours that zero-point matter and energy can pass between them and that gravitation forces in our universe can leak out. It's all cutting-edge stuff."

"I'll take your word for it," Cabrillo said.

"Anyway, "brane theory started to get traction among theoreti cal physicists in the mid-nineties, and Lydell Cooper glommed on to it, too. He took it a step further, though. It wasn't just quantum particles passing in and out of our universe. He believed that an intelligence from another 'brane was affecting people here in our dimension. This intelligence, he said, shaped our day-to-day lives in ways we couldn't sense. It was the cause of all our suffering. Just before his death, Cooper started to teach techniques to limit this influence, ways to protect ourselves from the alien power."

"And people bought this crap?" Max asked, sinking deeper into depression over his son.

"Oh yeah. Think about it from their side for a second. It's not a believer's fault that he is unlucky or depressed or just plain stupid. His life is being messed with across dimensional membranes It's an alien influence that cost you that promotion or prevented you from dating the girl of your dreams. It's a cosmic force holding you back, not your own ineptitude. If you believe that, then you don't have to take responsibility for your life. And we all know nobody takes responsibility for himself anymore. Responsivism gives you a ready-made excuse for your poor life choices.”
― Clive Cussler, Plague Ship

“The wellbeing of the heart of humanity does not
rely on practicality, logicality and factuality
alone. Fiction is needed, placebo is needed, and
you know what else is needed - a whole lot of
impractical and absurd unselfishness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

“Nutty logic makes nice machines, nutty love makes a good society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“If it can’t stand without the props of rationalization and justification, you can be assured that it never stood to begin with and it will never stand to end with.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Confusion is not a defense.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It’s illogical to think that a life lived at the sacrifice of priorities will one day show up as a prioritized life.”
― Richie Norton, Anti-Time Management: Reclaim Your Time and Revolutionize Your Results with the Power of Time Tipping

“We assume that there is nothing in the entirety of our existence that cannot be wrestled into submission and rendered sterile through the application of man’s logical rubrics. Logically speaking, that assumption is far too arrogant and simply too limited to explain the need of our humanity to live in a world that will forever tease our imaginations and have ample room to incessantly invite us out into the unknown.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Is it possible that the greatest part of this existence is made up of those things for which logic is completely inadequate simply because a world small enough to be imprisoned by our logic would itself be a prison?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In the discussion between two illogical people, a new illogical idea emerges much bigger than the original one.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Logics bring flow to communication and illogics break the continuity.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“An idea blended with common sense is logic.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Self-centeredness takes away the fragrance of common sense from an intelligent person and makes him dumb, deaf, stupid, and illogical.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Logic becomes illogical at the point that it assumes that everything can be explained logically.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Do not try to apply reason and logic to the unreasonable and illogical.”
― Aegelis, Sophizo

“Too many people build their lives on things for which they have no hammer, the lumber is an illusion, they have no idea of what a nail is, and there is no shred of common sense to effectively utilize everything that they don’t have.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Intolerance is the enemy, not illogicality. Argumentation without empathy is just hate speech. If someone is doing no harm, then who the hell are you to take away their fantasy! On occasion, healthy fantasy does indeed turn into harmful superstition - at that point it is the duty of every conscientious human to stand up to such superstition. Until then, keep your judgment to yourself.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“A rant is the product of someone attempting to defend the belief that a round peg is a square hole and a square hole is a round peg in order to defend the opinion that each fit the other and can be used interchangeably. But this requires that we explain that all of the damaged holes and broken pegs are neither.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A fool’s argument must constantly be fed by increasingly absurd rationalizations in order to maintain some disintegrating shred of legitimacy. And at some point the argument will have run its course to the degree that no amount of feeding will be able to sustain it. And at that point, the fool is forced to declare that the death of the argument was the very thing that legitimized its existence. And in the end, the only thing that’s legitimized is the fact that the person who builds their life on a bunch of dead arguments is, in fact, a legitimate fool.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“There seemed to be no end to humans’ illogical behavior.”
― Lee Bacon, The Last Human: A Novel

“At times I want to scream, scream at this illogical shit, at this wanton terror! Every comedy seems to end as a bad joke, no actually it ends as a horror story! An illogical one at that!”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights