Capacity Quote by Charles Colson

Becoming fully rational is not enough anymore; evidently it can lead to distortions of all the great human possibilities.

— Thomas Keating

Being so rational, we have created a very simple version of ourselves.

— Marcel Wanders

Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.

— Karen Horney

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

Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.

— Ayn Rand

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

— James Harvey Robinson

I am more human than rational.

— Karen Essex

Humans were eventually irrational creatures gifted with the power of rationality.

— L.E. Modesitt Jr

“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

If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

— Lars von Trier

The mind's ability to rationalize it's own shortcomings is unlimited; I am no exception.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Rationalization is one of the real obstacles to obedience.

— Russell M. Nelson