Aa Quote by Alcoholics Anonymous

“Rationalization is what we do when we smooth over any insight that interferes with our good feelings. It's a way of making the unacceptable…

— Susan Forward

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

— James Harvey Robinson

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

To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind--is to be crazy, not healthy.

— Michael Ventura

“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

“Rationality is man's basic virtue, the source of all his other virtues. Man's basic vice, the source of all evils, is the act of…

— Ayn Rand

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

— Ayn Rand

Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.

— Karen Horney

“I’ve always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn’t? What if it is built on insanity?”

— Jon Ronson

I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“It’s all well and good to have a mountain of psychological research detailing the different ways in which we routinely fail to think and…

— Joseph Heath