irrationality
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“A small irrationality is needed to take an oversized bet on yourself,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
But Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino said Sunday that "there is no justification whatsoever for the barbarity committed," calling it "an unforgivable act of irrationality."
From Barron's ● Dec. 28, 2025
It’s simply a matter of taking advantage of structural market irrationality.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 26, 2025
Through the animal’s point of view, De Los Santos Arias considers the enduring grip of colonialism and the consequences of human irrationality.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025
I sometimes wonder how much irrationality in the world has been excused by the nonsensical saying “Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,” a corruption of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s remark about “a foolish consistency.”
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
But they can newly explain so many of the irrationalities that are directly a product of the digital age.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
Well, all the reading I do is sort of aimed at the general mission of being more compassionate toward other people's irrationalities and skeptical of my own.
From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2024
In this way, Kirsch accepts the standard story about modernity: that ours is an era of “disenchantment” in which the old myths and irrationalities have been crushed under the boot heel of enlightened techno-science.
From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2023
The crux of the problem, as Cowen points out, is that it’s nearly impossible to understand irrationalities without taking advantage of them.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 27, 2012
How can we hope to explain the world, if our very first principle itself contains irrationalities?
From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace
