Irrational creatures, on the other hand, act according to the will of God and by mechanism.
God "did not intend that …[man] should have lordship over any but irrational creatures: not man over man, but man over the beasts.
Bubbles & Crashes: Bubbles, like anomalies, are often used by the behavioral finance crowd in an attempt to demonstrate that investors are irrational creatures of the herd who ignore economic fundamentals.
The one all-determining power is active everywhere, working in each particular being according to its nature, whether in rational or irrational creatures or in inorganic objects.
Stock traders are human, after all, and humans are sometimes irrational creatures -- creatures of emotions and hormones and complex subconscious mechanisms.
Will Storr, author of "The Unpersuadables," explained that it's simply part of human nature: "As humans we are irrational creatures, we are emotional creatures.
The mandatory "week of silence" between a woman's visit to her doctor and her abortion was written into law, meaning Russia embraced the idea that women are irrational creatures who can't be trusted to come to the correct decision about their own bodies without prodding from government.
If they dare to make money out of their beliefs by selling short (betting on falling prices) when a crisis hits, bears are decried as economic vandals and politicians call for their activities to be banned.The word "bear" brings to mind an irrational, angry creature that lashes out at anything in its path.
The editors asked eight artists to draw a monster that embodies their deepest or most irrational fear — a creature that belongs not to the monsters of history but to their private horrors.
Yet it would appear that no financial meltdown, no matter how great, can shake academia's manic and irrational pursuit of a creature as imaginary as a unicorn: an even remotely qualified faculty made up of proportional numbers of blacks, Hispanics and women.
