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Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.

— Ayn Rand

Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.

— Ayn Rand

Rationalization is a cover-up, a process of providing one's emotions with a false identity, of giving them spurious explanations and justifications - in order…

— Ayn Rand

Rationalism is the idea that we can ever understand anything about the state of being. It's a deathtrip. It always has been. . .…

— Stephen King

Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error.

— James Harvey Robinson

“Rational is when an act is performed based on logical grounds.”

— Duop Chak Wuol

We're living in interesting times, where people seem to be able to say things which are contrary to what you would call rationalism.

— Jed Mercurio

Talk about rationality can get very confusing unless the things with which rationality deals are also included.

— Robert M. Pirsig

Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.

— Francis Parker Yockey

Rationalism is an attitude of readiness to listen to contrary arguments and to learn from experience... of admitting that "I may be wrong and…

— Karl Popper

It is easier to rationalize than it is to be rational.

— Warren Buffett