Agree Quote by Bertrand Russell

Human beings aren't rational animals; we're rationalizing animals who want to appear reasonable to ourselves.

— Elliot Aronson

Reason ... contradicts the established order of men and things on behalf of existing societal forces that reveal the irrational character of this order…

— Herbert Marcuse

Man is a rational animal. So at least we have been told. Throughout a long life I have searched diligently for evidence in favor…

— Bertrand Russell

Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all.

— Jonathan Haidt

We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order.

— Nicolas Malebranche

“To some extent the romantic condemnation of rationality stems from the very effectiveness of rationality in uplifting men from primitive conditions.”

— Robert M. Pirsig

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries,…

— Scott Adams

Man is a rational animal – so at least I have been told. Throughout a long life, I have looked diligently for evidence in…

— Bertrand Russell

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

— Alexander Hamilton

Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice-and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or…

— Anonymous

In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be…

— Immanuel Kant

“We humans like to think we are creatures of reason. We aren't. The reality is that we make our decisions first and rationalize them…

— Scott Adams