Non-rational Quotes

Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.

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.

Faith is not a rational thing, and yet to understand the universe, rationality alone will not give it to us. Our understanding of the universe must transcend the rational.

Faith is led confidently to expect what reason would never suggest.

A mode of knowledge rooted in silence and intuitive insight which gives meaning to life but which cannot be explained in rational terms.

Faith is something that's - it's hard to articulate. It's - there's - it's not based on logic.

Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.

We know not through our intellect but through our experience.

I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity - you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown.

Man is many things, but he is not rational.

I'm not a very analytical person.

I want to draw and study a few things closely by feeling, not thinking.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.