"Only in the irrational and unknown direction can we come to wisdom again"

-- Jack Parsons

#Irrational Quotes

“The three pillars of development (economic, social and environmental) must be strengthened together. But it is evident that two of the pillars - economic and social - are subsidiary to, and underpinned by, the third: a vibrant global ecology. Neither dollars nor our species will out-survive our planet. The earth can survive happily without people or profit”
“Things just seem so much better in theory than in practice.”

Source : Chris Wooding (2010). “The Black Lung Captain: Tales of the Ketty Jay”, p.218, Hachette UK
“I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them.”

Source : Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone
“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe.”
“If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.”
“Nobody ever launched an attack without having misgivings beforehand, You ought to have misgivings before; but when the moment of action is come, the hour of misgivings is passed. It is often not possible to go backward from a course which has been adopted in war. A man must answer "Aye" or "No" to the great questions which are put, and by that decision he must be bound.”
“I have no trouble selling outâ€”Iâ€™m a benevolent hack, in a certain wayâ€”but I want to pander for something I believe in.”
“Your ideas need not have anything to do with reality. Making conclusions is a sure way of not enhancing our perception.”

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