Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.
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If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.
If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.
Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful.
I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
Irrationality interests me more than anything: sometimes it's very dangerous, but it can be incredibly beautiful.
Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.
Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization.
You don't watch 'A Beautiful Mind' and say, 'This is how every mathematician is.'
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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