irrationality

Noun

Meaning

The quality or state of being irrational.

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In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem. Carroll Quigley

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. Friedrich Nietzsche

Irrationality is the square root of all evil. Douglas Hofstadter

Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal. Terence McKenna

[Burke] emphasized that the new forms of politics, which hope to organize society around the rational pursuit of liberty, equality, fraternity, or their modernist equivalents, are actually forms of militant irrationality. Roger Scruton

The vested interests encourage the growth of imperialist wars and irrationality because both serve to divert the discontent of the masses away from their vested interests. Carroll Quigley

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