To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization. — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Theology is the post hoc rationalization of what you want to believe. — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
We humans, you see, have an infinite capacity for self-rationalization. — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
“The reason placing blame repeatedly fails to work is that I repeatedly place it on everyone else instead of where it actually… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Rationalizing is not a tool for penetration of reality but a post-factum attempt to harmonize one's own wishes with existing reality.” — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Rationalizing is wasteful. Rationalization, on the other hand, is critical. — Jamie Timbre Copy Share Image
“there was another rationalization: Trump was “inspirational not operational.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions!” — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“Pure hell forces action, but anything less can be endured with enough clever rationalization.” — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“When we look at Abraham, Sarah, Hagar and Ishmael, we see that God's grace can survive our three-ring-circuses of compromise, rationalization and… — Carl Prude Jr Copy Share Image
Even when we see somebody incredibly evil, there's a rationalization behind what they're doing. They're at their best when they're at the… — James Wolk Copy Share Image
“Of course, that rationalization didn't work at all. It would have helped if I'd had some Oreo cookie ice cream to eat… — Lee Goldberg Copy Share Image
“You don't realize how small you really are until you're faced with something like that. We live our lives as if we're… — Cora Carmack Copy Share Image
“I think the world honestly would be a much healthier place if instead of trying to find rationalizations for our bad behavior… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
“The human brain can protect us from seeing and feeling what it believes may be too uncomfortable for us to tolerate. It… — Bandy X Lee Copy Share Image
“A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Has it not ‘dawned’ on us that many of the things that we incessantly blame others for are actually things that our… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.' So if you think… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
For those who do not make the transition to a matured, more spiritual self-will reason will indeed be no more than rationalization.… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“It wasn't uncommon to hear rationalizations of this sort--the longing to transform bad deeds into good ones. No one ever wanted to… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
“Some wanted to know where they could find girls, wanted us to get Negro girls for them. We learned to spot these… — John Howard Griffin Copy Share Image
“Rationalization is what we do when we smooth over any insight that interferes with our good feelings. It's a way of making… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
“There's never been an act done since the beginning, from a kid stealing candy to a dictator committing genocide, that the person… — Leigh Brackett Copy Share Image
Rationalization is a cover-up, a process of providing one's emotions with a false identity, of giving them spurious explanations and justifications -… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The more effort we put into something, the more likely we are to value it. We are more likely to be consistent… — Nir Eyal Copy Share Image
“No anesthetic was necessary for the people who ordered the killings; they had the misleading language of technocratic bureaucracy to distance them… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“From the Fatwa and Rationalizatons Committee, on the Fifth Day of this Venerable Month: In light of its meeting today, the Committee… — Basma Abdel Aziz Copy Share Image
“At cocktail parties, I played the part of a successful businessman's wife to perfection. I smiled, I made polite chit-chat, and I… — Suzie Burke Copy Share Image
“If someone were to propose that the planets go around the sun because all planet matter has a kind of tendency for… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“...[R]eason issues its commands unyieldingly, without promising anything to the inclinations, and, as it were, with disregard and contempt for these claims,… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Carla's description was typical of survivors of chronic childhood abuse. Almost always, they deny or minimize the abusive memories. They have to:… — David L. Calof Copy Share Image
“When I was a young philosopher, I asked a senior colleague, Pat Suppes (then and now a famous philosopher of science and… — John R. Perry Copy Share Image
“If now we attend to ourselves on occasion of any transgression of duty, we shall find that we in fact do not… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
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