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The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Argument
Rather
Condition
Existence
Irrationality
Against
Thing
I don't think you can rely on Iran. I don't think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched Al Qaida to bomb New York and Washington. What were they thinking? Were they that stupid? They weren't stupid. There is an irrationality there, and there is madness in this method.
Benjamin Netanyahu
You
Madness
Stupid
Think
Thinking
Other
Rely
New
Like
Taliban
Method
Were
Iran
York
Irrationality
New York
Radicals
Washington
Al
Bomb
When I hear theists and atheists pontificating on how they know God does or does not exist, I can only smile at the irrationality and, yes, vanity of the notion.
Vincent Bugliosi
Smile
God
Atheists
Vanity
Only
Know
Does
How
Hear
Exist
Yes
Irrationality
Notion
The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be good arguments against gay marriage, partial-birth abortions and human cloning, but the fact that some people find such acts to be disgusting should carry no weight.
Paul Bloom
Good
Gay
Marriage
People
Abortion
Some People
Argument
Gay Marriage
Carry
Moral
Find
Insight
Some
Unreliable
Fact
Weight
Source
Cloning
Irrationality
May
Human
Disgust
Disgusting
Human Cloning
Against
Should
Acts
Irrationality interests me more than anything: sometimes it's very dangerous, but it can be incredibly beautiful.
John Burnside
Beautiful
Me
Dangerous
Sometimes
Incredibly
More
More Than Anything
Very
Than
Irrationality
Anything
Interests
You get more irrationality within the family and in consumer behavior than you get, say, in the behavior of firms in their purchases.
Ronald Coase
Family
You
Behavior
Say
Purchases
More
Consumer
Within
Than
Get
Irrationality
Interestingly, human irrationality is a hot topic in economics at the moment. Behavioural economics it's called, on the cusp of economics and psychology.
Evan Davis
Economics
Topic
Hot
Irrationality
Behavioural
Human
Psychology
Cusp
Interestingly
Moment
Tourette's has always been a tough one for many to digest because of its seeming irrationality: 'Why do you have to twitch or make noises? You seem normal, with no physical defects.' It's next to impossible to answer without living it.
Dash Mihok
You
Impossible
Tough
Living
Digest
Physical
Seem
Seeming
Noises
Make
Because
Without
Answer
Always
Been
Normal
Irrationality
Next
Many
Why
Twitch
Defects
Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and dogmatism. So too, Scholasticism.
Rodney Stark
Word
Thinking
Too
Religious
Embraces
Taken
Most
Dogmatism
Western
Intellectuals
Irrationality
Form
Mean
Theology
Among
Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus.
Thomas Mellon
Nature
Long
Extract
Virus
Thoroughly
Unable
Civilization
Perfectly
Were
Cultivated
Been
Irish
Irrationality
Modern
Modern Civilization
Ingrained
Among
Violence