Quotes About Rationalization

Vatana gelince, o ÅŸeydir, her ÅŸeydir, o ne olduÄŸu bilinmeyen ÅŸeydir ya da basitçe söylemek gerekirse, rezillik, dalaverecilik yapman?n mazeretidir.

It's harder to kill people. The empathy is so much stronger that the mind must invent new reasons. But, if we can somehow link it to our own survival, the mind will make the devious twists and turns necessary to rationalize it. We're very good at that. But it changes people. They learn to hate. Your wolf doesn't need to hate what he kills. It would be easier if we could kill without compunction, like your wolf does, but then, we wouldn't be human.

When people treat others badly, they have to rationalize it so they can go on living with themselves. We give ourselves excuses.

I admire the way we can lie, putting reason on our side.

incident. "Nothing new." I admire the way we can lie, putting reason on our side. Evidently, nothing new has happened, if you care to put it that way:

There are many people that frankly cannot get themselves to oppose Barack Obama. They make a lot of excuse for him.

As the Right doubles down on anti-anti-Trumpism, it will find itself goaded into defending and rationalizing ever more outrageous conduct just as long as it annoys CNN and the Left.

Translogic: A comment or statement that sounds logical and makes sense at the time it is said but when later closely examined it actually makes no sense at all.

Facts are almost irrelevant to most people. We make decisions based on emotion and then justify them later with whatever facts we can scrounge up in our defense.

Give an economist a result you want, and he'll find the numbers to justify it.

That's not how human psychology works. No, we tend to do lots of things without knowing why. We need excuses, though, so we rationalize! If an obvious reason for our behavior isn't readily available, we invent one, preferably one that helps us think better of ourselves.

one of the most fascinating and effective kinds of lying is self-deception.

We tell ourselves that we lie to protect others, but the self usually comes out looking damn good in the process.

his disease, whatever it was, resided in shadier corners of his soul—where decisions were reached not through reason but by rationalization, and where a thin membranous growth of selfishness always seemed to prevent his decent motives from becoming happy actions.

bullshit french post-war rationalizing

Friar Barnadine: Thou hast committed—Barabas: Fornication—but that was in another country;And besides, the wench is dead.

Didn't you say that the key is to live in the moment?" Metelon asked. "That's the excuse people use for foolish behavior.

That's the trick about denial, isn't it? Once you start lying to yourself, there's no one else to stop you from believing your own bullshit.

Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of "just this once.

If our subject persuades himself to believe contrary to the evidence in order to evade , somehow, the unpleasant truth to which he has already seen that the evidence points, then and only then is he clearly a self-deceiver.

Most of our so-called thinking processes are devoted to finding excuses for going on believing as we already do.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself lying to others is relatively an exception.

We are all capable of great self-deception when it serves us.

Or maybe temporary insanity is just an excuse for inexcusable behavior.