"Forget me, except as a friend," he said. "It is better as it is for you, Harry, and certainly better for her. Possibly it is better for"--with a little gasp--"me. The sweets of love are not for me. They are irrational, and irrational things are carefully eliminated from my scheme of life."
Towards evening Fortner came in with the news "Thet ole Bragg picked up his traps and skipped out fur Tullahoma, ter nuss his hurts, leavin' his wounded and lots o' stores in our hands."
So was gained the great victory of Stone River.英文原著 · 《The Red Acorn》
He would do no violence to a suppliant, no, not even if he were his own foe; since how irrational must it be to stigmatise robbers of temples as sacrilegious and yet to regard him who tears the suppliant from the altar as a pious person.英文原著 · 《Agesilaus》
CHEVELEY. Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.英文原著 · 《An Ideal Husband》
CUDWORTH'S great work--or, at least, the first part, which alone was completed,--_The Intellectual System of the World_, appeared in 1678. In it CUDWORTH deals with atheism on the ground of reason, demonstrating its irrationality. The book is remarkable for the fairness and fulness with which CUDWORTH states the arguments in favour of atheism.英文原著 · 《Bygone Beliefs》
If I stared fixedly at the inside of the sheet above me I found that I could see her as clearly as I had done an hour ago could talk to her in my thoughts, and, though it was a conversation of irrational tenor, I derived the greatest delight from it, seeing that "THOU" and "THINE" and "for THEE" and "to THEE" occurred in it incessantly. These fancies were so vivid that I could not sleep for the sweetness of my emotion, and felt as though I must communicate my superabundant happiness to some one.英文原著 · 《Childhood》
"The suppression of liberty is likely to always be irrational." I even bought in to that crap for a while.美剧 · 《Billions》