Action Quote by Herbert Marcuse

Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not…

— Ai Weiwei

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the…

— Lyman Abbott

The rational approach start from the idea that everything is explainable and that mystery is in some sense the enemy. This means that it…

— Jeremy Narby

“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

“Rationalism is false not because it seeks to express reality in rational mode, so far as this possible, but because it seeks to embrace…

— osman bakar

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.

— Ayn Rand

“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

“An irrational society is a society of moral cowards—of men paralyzed by the loss of moral standards, principles and goals. But since men have…

— Ayn Rand

Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.

— Alfred North Whitehead

To advocate irrationality is to advocate that which is destructive to human life.

— George H. Smith

“The philosophy of rationalism has misunderstood the nature of man, the nature of the social world, and the nature of reason itself. It does…

— Hans J. Morgenthau

“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