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
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
Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
One of my main agenda right from the beginning has been cost rationalization, and we have done a lot of cost rationalization. — Arundhati Bhattacharya Copy Share Image
“I paved the path to the very place I don’t want to be. But passing the blame off to someone else doesn’t… — Craig D. Lounsbrough 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
Rationalization for behavior is certainly an easy way out of a situation, but it enforces the weakness, making it weaker and weaker… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
“An educated theologian: someone who's better at rationalizing what they're pretending to know.” — Peter Boghossian Copy Share Image
“Attempting to justify a lie is something akin to poking a really big hornet’s nest with a really short stick. The distance… — Craig D. Lounsbrough 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
Reason adapts impulses and beliefs into the real world; rationalization, on the other hand, adapts the concept of reality to the impulses… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we have to pretend that we don’t care in order to protect ourselves from the fact that we do. And the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough 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
“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
“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
“The chaplain had sinned, and it was good. Common sense told him that telling lies and defecting from duty were sins. On… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Often we fail to voice and act on our values because, before we even apply our best thinking to developing an action… — Mary C. Gentile Copy Share Image
In the range of my character at any given moment, I have acted in the only way it seemed to me I… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
Always the rationalization is the same-"Once this situation is remedied, then I will be happy." But it never works that way in… — Phillip Moffitt Copy Share Image
“We have become used to obstructionist ideas. In the name of modernisation we are unconsciously hindering the natural flow of life. The… — Amitav Chowdhury 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 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
“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
“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
“...[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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
![“...[R]eason issues its commands unyieldingly, without promising anything to the inclinations, and, as it were, with disregard and contempt for these claims, which are so impetuous and at the same time so plausible, and which will not allow themselves to be suppressed by any command. Hence there…” quote by Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c9d/immanuel-kant-532_rationalization_r-eason-issues-its-commands-unyieldingly_956307.jpg)
