Quotes About Rationalization

So it was that I justified my morals and ethics. Everything became relative.

Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.

We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.

Communism is Christianity castrated by Ockham`s Razor.

The brain has a way of confirming its own hypotheses. It's how we function in our world. That which fits within our definition and perspective of our existence is retained, if not amplified. That which does not is either rationalized or cast aside until an event so great or profound occurs that we must rethink everything.

The heart lies to itself because it must.

I think if you're going to abuse someone, you really have to convince them of two things. First, you have to normalise what you're doing, convince them that it's not that bad. And the second thing is to convince them that they deserve it in some way.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Religion was a crutch, a way people rationalized away their pain in life, like the slaves yearning for a better existence. A denial. When there is no fear of death, David had told her once, there is no need for religion.

The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.

Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them.

The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.

It would be easier," Doob said, "if I could figure out what the hell she wanted." "You're assuming," Luisa said, "that she has a plan. I doubt that she does. She is driven to seek power. She finds some way to do that and then backfills a rationalization for it afterward.

You're assuming," Luisa said, "that she has a plan. I doubt that she does. She is driven to seek power. She finds some way to do that and then backfills a rationalization for it afterward." Doob pulled his tablet closer and started trying to find Tav's blog. "To what extent do you imagine she really is reporting facts about the AC? As opposed to creating the reality she describes?" Doob asked. "What's the difference?" Luisa asked.

She is driven to seek power. She finds some way to do that and then backfills a rationalization for it afterward.

When your reasons for believing something are justified ad hoc, you are left susceptible to further discoveries undermining the rationale for that belief.

Sometimes people rationalize their behavior. How about the Americans who gave atomic bomb secrets to the Russians? They were people who said they did it out of conviction—so one side wouldn't have all the power.

He who has once begun to live by robbery will always find pretexts for seizing what belongs to others.

To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.

Into the echo chamber of his own mind, where he was always able to find a justification for the most terrible actions.

The only thing unique about this offender was that his rationalization was cloaked in religion. "For the truly devout, they might provide rationale for