Feeling pain Quote by Shirley Impellizzeri

“Rationalization is foreplay with one's conscience.”

— Doug Cooper

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

— Ayn Rand

“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

“No matter how much insight and understanding we develop, the rational brain is basically impotent to talk the emotional brain out of its own…

— Bessel A. van der Kolk

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

— James Harvey Robinson

“For emotion is the enemy of rational argument.”

— Steven D. Levitt

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

“Fear and anxiety and sadness are not necessarily always undesirable or unhelpful states of mind; rather, they are often representatives of the necessary pain…

— Mark Manson

“The emotional parts of my brain are telling me not to trust any of this and run for it, and the rational parts are…

— Nat Kozinn

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Sometimes in life one experiences an emotion which is so strong that it is difficult to think, or to reason.

— Eric Cantona

I realized that, to a large degree, I had kept my rational mind at bay my whole life. I just acted on intuition in…

— Jeff Mangum