Quotes About Rationalization

Tolstoy said, 'The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.' Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our lives. Our powers of rationalization are unlimited. They allow us to live in luxury and indifference while others, whom we could help if we chose to, starve and go to hell.

A primary role of traditional religion is deathist rationalization—that is, rationalizing the tragedy of death as a good thing.

Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn't be prepared to make for other people.

If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness.

How can we put this.... Caffeinating the hamster in her head to justify the mental gymnastics.

the current situation being a toss-up as to what you want to believe. Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal. Hence you will find that often what you believe is what you want to believe, rather than being the result of careful thinking.

Conscious thought doesn't have much to do with this stuff. Doesn't have much to do with the way we live our lives, period, if you believe the psychologists. A bit of rationalization, most of it with hindsight. Put the rest down to hormonal drives, gene instinct, and pheromones for the fine-tuning. Sad, but true.

If you're that clever you can argue yourself into anything.

Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it. And call the result common sense. Did I think Adrian's action an implied

Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it. And call the result common sense.

He was too clever. If you're that clever you can argue yourself into anything. You just leave common sense behind.

Logiškai m?st?, o paskui elg?si logiška išvada. Ta?iau daugelis iš m?s?, ?tariu, daro priešingai: priima instinktyv? sprendim?, paskui kuria priežas?i? infrastrukt?r? jam pateisinti. O rezultat? pavadina sveiku protu.

Perhaps that is the true definition of pragmatism – an ability to deceive oneself and so turn one's back on principle, law or custom if they stand in the way of what one wants.

Los que están de acuerdo con la libertad del sexo tampoco se diferencian gran cosa; lo único que hacen es dar una justificación racional a las violaciones recíprocas. Aceptando este punto de vista, se podría llegar al goce; pero la libertad ligada a una constante preocupación - como una cortina que no cierra bien- puede producir un psicópata sexual, y ya no queda para su órgano ni la oportunidad de quitarse el sombrero y descansar.

Humans believed they thought things consciously when most of the time they were simply rationalizing instinctive reactions as basic as the amoeba's, and after those reactions had already taken place.

Claire had realized a long time ago that if you lie with enough conviction, you can usually fool yourself.

if you lie with enough conviction, you can usually fool yourself.

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

But then, anyone was capable of any manner of atrocities if they wanted something bad enough. People could justify anything to themselves if they wanted it bad enough. No one was immune to that.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.

Honest dishonesty. That's quite the oxymoron – but I like the originality that you've brought to bear in the art of rationalization. Maybe you should consider becoming a lawyer, " he added jokingly.