Antirational Quotes & Sayings

When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well. — Thomas Merton

Humankind's compulsion has always been to master the meaning of their world. Through the ages humans have time and again tried to proclaim the nature of existence. Yet the sun has continued to shine on an enigmatic world, with the most imponderable aspect of that world being humans themselves. — Stephen R. Harrison

To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success. — Joseph De Maistre

Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Things you never thought were going to turn into something end up being the most important things in your life. You have to learn to not try to control it. — Michael Ian Black

Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

In poltitics you get what you deserve rather than what you want. — Cecil Parkinson

I'm always optimistic. — Robbie Robertson