To make matters more complicated, friendships and family ties rarely function with predictable tidiness; rather, they inject
an irrationality into life which flows from the haphazard nature of emotional commitments.
Freud denied human freedom lest it introduce
irrationality into the world.
Not exact matches
As a result, a lot of
irrationality is unleashed
into the world.
Indeed, as post-modernity decomposes
into ever more bizarre forms of
irrationality, the cleansing, liberating truth of the gospel and the vision of life well lived found in the Beatitudes ought to be a compelling offer.
A fifth tactic that emerges when they are pressed is a retreat to «mystery», which is really a retreat
into irrationality.
Planes were flown
into the Twin Towers on 9/11 because of religious
irrationality.
When as Pope Benedict XVI he addressed
irrationality in Islam at his September 2006 Regensburg address, and personally received the convert Magdi Allam
into the Church in 2008, I saw in these actions hope for a rebirth of the decaying West.
If abstractive reason always falls short of reality, philosophy degenerates
into mindless chatter and reality soon teaches the wayward the price paid for
irrationality.
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.
The absurd
irrationality of social and economic systems that despise the living community for the profit of a minority human elite, converting all source of life
into market products, has forced us to migrate to distant planets to safeguard human survival.
Bringing together exceptional examples of painting and sculpture from the Arts Council Collection, and augmented with major loans from important UK collections, Kaleidoscope examines the art of the swinging»60s through a fresh and surprising lens, one «bringing
into direct view the relationship between colour and form, rationality and
irrationality, order and waywardness».
Or maybe it should be put the other way round: Stubbs's imagery seems constantly on the verge of converging
into some form of cultural commentary, but the fundamental abstractness and even
irrationality of his overlapping poured shapes seems calculated to prevent that — to insist on the painting as an agreement to disagree between wayward materials and stubborn intentionality.
The idea was to present art from 1950 to 1980 in a daring new context, and show how World War II and the post-war years inspired a generation of artists here and abroad to push their work
into the realm of
irrationality and even madness.
For the invited artists, these references are not an escape
into the depths of
irrationality, but rather a new way of experiencing reality: it is a tool for inhabiting the world in all its richness and multiplicity.»
This is not an escape
into the depths of
irrationality, but rather a new way of experiencing reality.
«[T] he institution of
irrationality controls much of the intellectual life of the society,» Quigley concludes, and once this instrument of
irrationality is created, the chances of it being reformed
into an instrument of expansion once again «become almost nil.»
We institutionalized the
irrationality of market panic pricing
into determining the solvency of our banks.