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
“Pure hell forces action, but anything less can be endured with enough clever rationalization.” — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, we need little lies to save our pride. And sometimes we need big lies to save our souls.” — Bettie Sharpe Copy Share Image
“My experience is that the absence of firm prior resolve results in regular rationalization.” — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“... We [can't] escape the influence of sin in the world, but [do] we have to pay money to see and hear… — Chris Heimerdinger 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
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
“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
“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
“I've been benefited from a dictionary definition I found that reads: "Rationalization is giving a socially acceptable reason for socially unacceptable behavior,… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Paranoia is transmissible from mind to mind, but it does not go by the route of reason. It can therefore change its… — William Nicholls 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
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
“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
“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
“Thomas was like a drug, so smooth and overwhelming that he took one up a level in their emotions just by watching… — Sara Niles 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
“Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.” We humans possess a strong,… — Anonymous 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
“...[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
“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
“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
“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
Theology is the post hoc rationalization of what you want to believe. — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
“Your explanation is good, but your herring doesn't fry, as we say in Ramaldah," he exploded.” — Andrew Ashling Copy Share Image
Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“We should not delude ourselves into thinking that our historical narratives, as commonly constructed, are anything more than retrofits.” — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“I didn't know that empty rationalization was part of your programming," said Ram. "We would not be fit companions for human beings… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Don't knock rationalization. Where would we be without it? I don't know anyone who'd get through the day without two or three… — Jeff Goldblum Copy Share Image
We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us. — James Ramsey Ullman Copy Share Image
“To recklessly excuse a failure is to believe that I’ve effectively erased it from the story of my life, when I’ve actually… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Your theology won't always work toward your obedience, because your use of theology is dictated by the condition of your heart. If… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
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