| Some skeptics also tend to lump all forms of religion in with irrationalism and superstition. |
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| The decline of Newton's reputation tracks the rise of irrationalism among Western literati. |
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| In a brilliant insight, Furedi claims that this instrumental downgrading of knowledge is just the flip side of postmodern irrationalism. |
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| By extending naturalism even to his own mind and soul, the materialist ends up sliding into his own morass of irrationalism and superstition. |
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| And in a triumph of irrationalism, they announce that they are to be married. |
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| Unlike his contemporary American Minimalist Donald Judd, Arico sustained a kind of irrationalism, an anti-symmetry. |
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| So much for the duller secularism's nonsense about irrationalism and whimsy. |
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| In this sense, perhaps the best way to fight irrationalism is by promoting rationalism. |
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| A large part of the difficulty is that the discourse of the populist Right is also often characterised by irrationalism and hyperbolic abuse. |
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| Overnight, the tendency of naturalistic rationalism to decay into postmodern irrationalism became a national joke. |
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| The sleep of reason brings forth monsters, and in the past two decades or so the spread of irrationalism has produced monsters galore. |
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| It is time secular and self-proclaimed leftist intellectuals called off their romance with irrationalism and romanticism. |
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| It has the further advantage of not forcing us right from the beginning, and without any theoretical alternative, into outright relativism and irrationalism. |
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| Hegel's dialectical logic is the way through the contradictions of scepticism and irrationalism are solved. |
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| Respect someone for the quality of their beliefs, their content, not the quantity with which they're held, lest cruel irrationalism become valued for its very excesses. |
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| Proto-fascists drew on contemporary science as well as irrationalism. |
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| But toward the end of his life, irrationalism has become an ideology. |
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| Our struggles, against irrationalism on the one hand and scientism on the other are more necessary than ever. |
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| This is not the irrationalism of Nietzsche or Freud, for whom much of human behaviour is irrationally driven, but rather, a non-rationalist standpoint. |
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| Obviously, the best defence against the powers of irrationalism and fanaticism is to strengthen the worldly aspects of the state and legal democratic order. |
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| This work is necessary – but it can only proceed with a more sophisticated analysis of how today's landscape of hyperrational power has coerced a new and increasingly potent irrationalism into existence. |
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| Without doubt, irrationalism and fanaticism are the main obstacles both to the emancipation of women and to social and economic progress in general in these countries. |
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| The main tide of irrationalism, like that of literary romanticism itself a form of irrationalism followed the Age of Reason and was a reaction to it. |
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| Instinctotherapy, which recruits members in countries whose culture is more tinged with irrationalism than in France, claims to help people suffering from serious illnesses such as cancer. |
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| From 1934 onwards, with anti-semitism institutionalized and irrationalism increasingly dominating public discourse, this engagement began to cost the Circle still more dearly. |
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| Under the influence of Charles Darwin and later Sigmund Freud, irrationalism began to explore the biological and subconscious roots of experience. |
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| Osho died nine years ago after establishing his eclectic brand of hippy-dippy irrationalism, sexual therapy and ancient learning across the globe. |
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