Quotes About Rationalization

This Doesn't Count" Loophole: We tell ourselves that for some reason, this circumstance doesn't "count.

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do. —BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Autobiography

Less immediately significant but of greater importance for totalitarian governments was the other experience in Africa's race society, that profit motives are not holy and can be overruled, that societies can function according to principles other than economic, and that such circumstances may favour those who under conditions of rationalised production and the capitalist system would belong to the underprivileged

One time Clu tried to explain it to me," Enos continued. "'Sometimes,' he said, 'you don't want to escape the world; sometimes you want to escape yourself.' " He cocked his head. "Do you believe that?" "Not really," Myron said. "Like a lot of cute phrases, it sounds good. But it also sounds like a load of self-rationalization.

Because it sounds like he's trying to justify his actions.

We are all masters of self-rationalization. We all seek ways to justify our narrative. We all twist that narrative to make ourselves more sympathetic. You do it too.

Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.

You, my friend, are so good at lying to yourself you're actually starting to believe the bullshit coming out of your mouth

This faulty thinking often shapes our adult perceptions of love. So that just as we would cling to the notion that those who hurt us as children loved us, we try to rationalize being hurt by other adults by insisting that they love us.

L'antisémitisme est un délire très spécial dont l'une des particularités a toujours été, à chacune des étapes de son histoire, de choisir les justes mots qui donneront à sa déraison les apparences de la raison.

Rationalization is Resistance's right-hand man. Its job is to keep us from feeling the shame we would feel if we truly faced what cowards we are for not doing our work.

But rationalization has its own sidekick. It's that part of our psyche that actually believes what rationalization tells us. It's one thing to lie to ourselves. It's another thing to believe it.

Wilde thus had a wonderful political rationalization for his extravagantly privileged existence: just lie around all day in loose crimson garments reading Plato and sipping brandy and be your own communist society . . .

By doing nothing, Sloan's so-called friends had sealed her fate as surely as Fritz had with his gun. In hindsight, did any of them recognize the price she had paid for their passivity? Their failure to act was all the more damning for the ease with which they rationalized their behavior afterward.

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 acceptable. By giving good reasons for what would otherwise distress us, we make sense out of confusing and even frightening situations.

People have trouble admitting when they act for purely selfish reasons. Telling the truth about something like that forces them to redefine their sense of self. So they make up a story. We all do it. Tell stories to explain the unexplainable. To get by. Sometimes the stories even help us survive that which would otherwise destroy us.

People have trouble admitting when they act for purely selfish reasons. Telling the truth about something like that forces them to redefine their sense of self. So they make up a story. We all do it. Tell stories to explain the unexplainable. To get by. Sometimes the stories even help us survive that which would otherwise

Someone had said that if you thought about the unthinkable long enough it became quite reasonable.

Um Cisne Negro é, segundo uma teoria recente, um acontecimento terrível com um grande impacte que nem a ciência nem a história poderiam ter previsto e que só pode ser racionalizado a posteriori. Como o 11 de Setembro, a crise imobiliária de 2008 ou o regresso da moda das bolsas de cintura.

Un cisne negro es, según una teoría reciente, un suceso terrible de alto impacto que ni la ciencia ni la historia podría haber anticipado, y que sólo puede ser racionalizado a posteriori. Como el 11-S, la crisis inmobiliaria de 2008 o el regreso de las riñoneras.

Sanatç?lar?n ve mimarlar?n sözel ifadeleri genel olarak itibari de?erleriyle ele al?nmamal?d?r, zira ço?u zaman yüzeydeki bilinçli birer rasyonalizasyon ya da savunmadan ibarettirler ve pekala yap?ta bizzat dirimsel gücünü veren derin bilinçd??? niyetlerle keskin bir kar??tl?k bir kar??tl?k içinde olabilmektedirler.

To argue otherwise was to lie to oneself.

An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.

Some are filled with a compelling urge, a temptation that recycles in the mind, perhaps to become a habit, then an addiction. We are prone to some transgression and sin and also a rationalization that we have no guilt because we were born that way. We become trapped, and hence comes the pain and torment that only the Savior can heal. You have the power to stop and to be redeemed.