“Careful. When you dabble too much with reason life becomes nothing but a process of dying.” — Lucas Mascotto-Carbone Copy Share Image
“the thing about fear is that it defies the laws of rationality. It creates its own laws instead” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“...there are enduring standards superior to our petty private stock of rationality.” — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
In healthy individuals, emotions don't distort rationality, they enhance it! — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
“Of course, I rationalize the fear. I realize it’s not real, that my house isn’t burning down, that the deer aren’t going… — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
“Historical definition of a country's borders... "...here's where my murder geography ends and your murder geography begins, at least until I get… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“The true self is that which is in touch with reality. The false self is the aspects of your personality that are… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“What the efficient market hypothesis doesn't account for is that people are not always rational. Just ask any divorce lawyer.” — Coreen T. Sol Copy Share Image
“The rational mind finds yielding to fear an irresistible temptation; but by indulging in this temptation, the mind slays itself.” — Théun Mares Copy Share Image
The inversion of external compulsion into the compulsion of conscience ... produces the machine-like assiduity and pliable allegiance required by the new rationality. — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Rash decisions will more often than not, result in the demise of the chances you could have had with a situation; now… — Abhilash 'Nox' Baruah Copy Share Image
I mean, I think it's a two-way relationship: I think you should not have too much faith in your own rationality. You… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter… — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share Image
Afraid? Batman's not afraid of anything. It's me. I'm afraid. I'm afraid that The Joker may be right about me. Sometimes…I question… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice... Man has to be a man-by choice; he… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I do not declare that I have no intention of marrying on any general principle. If I were to see the right… — Jude Morgan Copy Share Image
You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“If the box contains a diamond, I desire to believe that the box contains a diamond; If the box does not contain… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
The ontological concept of truth is in the centre of a logic which may serve as a model of pre- technological rationality.… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“In the Hindu religion, one can[not] have freedom of speech. A Hindu must surrender his freedom of speech. He must act according… — B.R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
It is actually a nice question how far Descartes himself endorses the monological and metaphysically dualistic theory of mind associated with his… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“ All of us, whether vivisector or vegan, have been subject to mechanisms undercutting sympathy for animals. How long and to what… — Brian Luke Copy Share Image
“What can we say for and about this behavioral version, this bounded rationality version, of human thinking and problem solving? The first… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
Institutionalized desublimation thus appears to be an aspect of the "conquest of transcendence" achieved by the one-dimensional society. Just as this society… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“The notion of literature as only one of several avenues to a single type of propositional knowledge is, of course, hardly the… — Peter Swirski Copy Share Image
We live at a time that is notable for the polemical nature of discussions about identity, consciousness, rationality, agency, memory, and feeling.… — Robert P. George Copy Share Image
I think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world.… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The tangible source of exploitation disappears behind the façade of objective rationality. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“Leaders console the world with their speeches, heroes console the world with their actions.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“It takes a huge amount of culture to normalize "crazy", and of course that's its main focus” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“If Quality were dropped, only rationality would remain unchanged.” — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Rationality doesn’t exist; right is absence of wrongness and wrong is what seems to be unfair.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something. — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image