The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.... The public have neither shame nor gratitude.
There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
It's hard for people who obey and respect the law to keep their heads from exploding in the face of affronts to common sense and the rule of law.
I am tough. Sometimes I'm unreasonable. I have to catch myself every once in a while.
Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.
To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.
On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of. On the other side was sense.
In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.
No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
I have a theatrical temperament. I'm not interested in the middle road - maybe because everyone's on it. Rationality, reasonableness bewilder me.
Despite advances achieved through objective scientific investigation, and the breaking down of long-standing fears and superstitions, the world is still not a reasonable place. Many attempts to make it so have failed because of selfish individual and national interests.
To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.
Naturally I knew it was ridiculous to deprive half the people of the country of any voice in the laws they had to live under, merely on account of a trifling difference in sex, but I did not think anything I could do about it was likely to be helpful.
Remember, taboos are just a map of what a society feels it's acceptable to be neurotic about. Taboos aren't rational.
I know I am unreasonable about people but there are so many wonderful people whom I can't take the time to know.
The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.
At such a moment, it is not the physical pain which hurts the most (and this applies to adults as much as to punished children); it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of it all.
You can't argue with stupidity.
Insanity is a lack of proportion.
A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.
I'm impervious to logic.
One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
