Sentences with phrase «by irrationality»

I am humiliated and saddened by irrationality — yes, humiliated — for in a world in which merely rhetoric and «persuasiveness» tells us «what is true» and, therefore, «might is right» and the bigger is the better, I crawl in a ball and hope for the bullies to pass.

By late 1919 he was experimenting with collages which were driven by irrationality, allowing him to mine his own subconscious.

«Many people in traditional relationships were sucked in by the irrationality of love.

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By quantifying market expectations across thousands of stock as we do, it's easy to find pockets of irrationality and identify companies that are over or undervalued.

Do financial advisors systematically add value by providing information to, and tempering the irrationalities of, individual investors?

I believe the due diligence dilemma — and the amplified exposure to irrationality it beckons — will be proactively, thoughtfully, and very creatively, managed by successful platforms.

«Volatility caused by money managers who speculate irrationality with huge sums will offer the true investor more chance to make intelligent investment moves.

You can get the same physiological, and psychological benefits of prayer by meditating, exercising, singing, humming, or making human connections, without the side effects of irrationality.

A politics of reason gave way to a politics of emotion and flirted with the politics of irrationality; the claims of moral reason were displaced by moralism; the notion that all men and women were called to live lives of responsibility was displaced by the notion that some people were, by reason of birth, victims; patriotism became suspect, to be replaced by a vague internationalism; democratic persuasion was displaced by judicial activism.

Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience by Richard Landes Oxford, 520 pages, $ 35 This is a disturbing and momentous book, for modern political thinking has trouble making sense of the intrusion of irrationality.

And no, we wouldn't by some mysterious process presumably only you and perhaps the Oracle know start believing in the Oracle if we felt we had to focus on debunking that particular font of myth and irrationality.

The churches have sown irrationality and unbiblical ideas and now our nation is run by the irrational and immoral.

In addition to these crazy and immoral laws, there are plenty of examples of God's irrationality by his direct killing of many people for reasons that defy any rational explanation such as killing children who make fun of bald people, and the killing of a man who tried to keep the ark of God from falling during transport.

I'm not saying you're wrong — just trying to sustain conversation (I call it converse action, my idiocy) on how we talk about ultimate matters on the one hand, practical matters on the other hand, rationality and irrationality, logic, analogic and illogic, belief (bias), faith (by virtue of the absurd).

Thus the Hegelian proposition turns into its opposite through Hegelian dialectics itself: All that is real in the sphere of human history becomes irrational in the process of time, is therefore irrational by its very destination, is tainted beforehand with irrationality; and everything which is rational in the minds of men is destined to become real, no matter how much it contradicts existing apparent reality.

I have very little doubt that our generation will be looked back upon with jaw - dropping incredulity by future historians who will marvel at how, in the 21st century, having peered at the mind numbing infinity from Hubble, delved into the quantum irrationality of CERN and unraveled the beautiful simplicity of the DNA codons, we still made important life decisions based upon the presumed wishes of some hokey, invisible, all - powerful sky - fairy dreamed up by some illiterate Arab tribesmen in a tent in the Middle East 2,000 years ago.

simply by replacing the popular definition of «faith» and «belief» — the one that includes irrationality and James calls «dead faith» in his letter — with an alternate definition that does NOT include rationality and that James calls «living faith.»

Such hasty generalization can not be dealt with simply by demonstrating its irrationality.

Accordingly we find «evolutionism» interpreted thus optimistically and embraced as a substitute for the religion they were born in, by a multitude of our contemporaries who have either been trained scientifically, or been fond of reading popular science, and who had already begun to be inwardly dissatisfied with what seemed to them the harshness and irrationality of the orthodox Christian scheme.

It may have been considered petty in some instances, but mind games, passion - induced irrationality and word wars are byproducts of two drivers and two teams looking to obtain an advantage by any means.

It is sheer irrationality for anyone to just utter statements like» I am tired of always finishing fourth ----» Such irresponsible statements can only be supported by people who lack objectivity and logic.

However, I am reminded of our conversations about birthday cupcakes, sneaking carrots in smoothies, and a few others where you've insisted on creating a «kid - friendly» version of life that bears no resemblance to the real thing for your kids with respect to mental and emotional challenges such as refusing a cupcake when everyone else is eating them, or being confronted with the irrationality of one's own food refusals by surprise.

I collected a example list of non-core law changes revoked by the Spanish government, to showcase the vast differences on them and to display the irrationality behind the revocation, except in two (pro-independentist) cases.

Oddly, we have more knowledge of why people make mistakes in thinking than of why they get things right, yet research on irrationality is hardly mentioned by Collier.

I get irritated by critics who seem to think that because psychiatry has elements of irrationality, there is essentially no such thing as mental illness.

Book Review — The Upside of Irrationality — By Dan Ariely... — Jun 04, 2010 · The mind may be more Homer Simpson than Mr. Spock, Dan Ariely argues.

In a recent book, «The Upside of Irrationality», he argues that the sites treat human beings as if they are goods that can be fully defined according to a set of standard attributes, in much the same way that, say, a digital camera can be described by the number of megapixels that it has and other characteristics.

Referred to by some as a dadaistic comedian, Andy Kaufman took comedy and performance art to the edges of irrationality and I knew within 45 seconds I was never going on a date with Andy Cohen, says Anderson Cooper on the set of the Tonight Show on Friday

Watching as these townspeople attempt to survive together, only to be torn apart by their own irrationality is fun and thrilling.

Class Warfare takes a wider view but one clearly influenced by the experience of the irrationality and inefficiency imposed by lengthy union contracts, which dictate in detail what can and can not be done in disciplining or, indeed, leading and guiding teachers.

It is of course, open to and impinged on by all of those — another great draw for the writer — and also by belief and passion and irrationality and need.

Our reviewer writes that Armstrong's «mordant humor is effectively balanced by a keen appreciation of the futility and irrationality of war.»

The Upside of Irrationality by Dan Ariely Reengineering Management by James Champy Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter Drucker The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker Executive Intelligence by Justin Menkes Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding by Al Ries Quiet Leadership by David Rock

AAII Stock Ideas David Dreman's Contrarian Approach to Stock Selection This strategy takes advantage of investor irrationality by targeting discounted, fundamentally sound stocks.

By applying the value - oriented investing principles of Graham and Dodd, Brandes seeks to take advantage of market irrationality and short - term security mispricing by buying securities that we believe are undervalued and offer attractive total - return potential — i.e., dividend income and capital appreciation growtBy applying the value - oriented investing principles of Graham and Dodd, Brandes seeks to take advantage of market irrationality and short - term security mispricing by buying securities that we believe are undervalued and offer attractive total - return potential — i.e., dividend income and capital appreciation growtby buying securities that we believe are undervalued and offer attractive total - return potential — i.e., dividend income and capital appreciation growth.

The Goons have been driven to abusive posting (it is not my intent to excuse them but only to point out a partial explanation of their behavior and of our tolerance for it) by their discovery of the core irrationality of their investing beliefs.

With roughly 100 artworks by 62 artists, the exhibition embraces the irrationality among American, Latin American and European artists during the three decades from 1950 to 1980.

However, by the beginnings of the 1960s, leadership of the movement had shifted to the color - field and abstract imagist painters, whose followers in the 1960s rebelled against the irrationality of the Action painters.

Frowned upon by generations of art historians as the last expression of irrationality (as opposed to perfect perspective) the primitive painters played a pivotal role in bridging Medieval styles with the resurgence of classicism characteristic of Renaissance artists and architects.

Using the market as both a geographic and ideological center, Heading Southwest [About Practice # 2] aims to shed light on the macro meaning of the Essex Market's inner and parallel social functions, as a metaphor of a universal need: the human desire to discover and find the irrationality within reality, the extraordinary within ordinary and the mythology within facts, in turn revealing a fragile desire to fictionalize reality by threading together a narrative that feels more impressive than the real.

Mehretu's «Cairo» (from 2013), recalls the Freudian overlays of history and the unconscious that are the essence of the megalopolis lifestyle; Bradford's «Corner of Desire and Piety» (2008) refers to the social failures of the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe and by extension the frailty and irrationality of the urban fabric; and the El Anatsui tapestry, «Red Black,» 2010, undulating on the wall, recalls the skin of the museum itself, woven of many pieces, with a curious declivity dramatizing its strength.

The Excess section is announced by a largish sculpture of tiny grids rising to three Alpine peaks by Sol LeWitt, whose underlying irrationality and obsessive repetition was first noted by the critic Rosalind Krauss in a 1978 essay on the artist that was Ms. Baum's original inspiration.

-LSB-[By not addressing the actual scales involved, you are entering the realm of irrationality.

However, I confess I generally value logically derived, intellectually disciplined opinions produced through a dedicated lifetime of training, thought and study more highly than opinions and screeds generated by blind prejudice (which scientists might have in plenty), warped upbringing (again, not claiming scientists don't suffer this too), and irrationality (a trifecta).

Even so, the irrationality that sometimes characterizes our «war on drugs» has allowed foreign hemp farmers to exploit the vacuum created by the prevailing ignorance about its clear distinctions from marijuana.

Have you attempted inflicting real pain on yourself by reading the philosopher that took Plato ideas to the ultimate irrationality?

It's meta - irrationality when you can no longer tell if the arguer is actually taking a real stance or is simply trying to prank the argument, either by becoming increasingly preposterous or silly.

Applying Quigley's theory to CAGW, what we see is that CAGW is an instrument of irrationality, created by the governing classes, which serves to «to divert the discontent of the masses away from their vested interests.»

The online North German NWZ daily here has an article on a speech given by University of Konstanz physics professor Dr. Gerd Ganteför on the subject of Germany's transition to renewable energies, the so - called Energiewende, and on the general irrationalities pervading German climate science.

The schools thing you mention may indeed be a step back, but in 1930s Europe for instance I guess similar or worse influence levels were imposed by the right and with their (different kind of) irrationality.