Quotes About Rationalization

As commonly practiced, philosophy is the attempt to find good reasons for conventional beliefs.

The capacity for erroneous belief is very great, especially where it coincides with convenience.

It's amazing how much you can rationalize when you're on drugs. I could actually say to myself, "Look, I'm only doing blow Wednesday through Saturday.

I began to rationalize marrying Will [William Houston Price]. 'He comes from a good family. A girl could do worse.' (As it turned out, I couldn't, but I didn't know that yet.)

With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem.

Some people smoked crack in alleyways. Franny ate chocolate. On the scale of things, it seemed entirely reasonable.

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

I'm an expert in homo sapiens behavior. They can rationalize anything. Take war. They'll bankrupt their economies, sacrifie the best of their young, unleash a bloodbath that impresses even me, at the expense of providing shelter, food, and medicine for their own people. Compared to that, the sale of a few women is trivial.

Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex

The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses.

I know this sounds suspiciously like a rationale I had come up with to keep from doing something I didn't want to do anyway, but hey, I can't help that.)

God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would like it to have been, and we use our minds to come up with rationalizations for our ingratitude. We are a murmuring, discontented, unhappy, ungrateful people. And because we think we want salvation from our discontents...

That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did.

All theology represents an intellectual rationalization of the possession of sacred values... Every theology... presupposes that the world must have a meaning, and the question is how to interpret this meaning so that it is intellectually conceivable.

The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.

Then I thought maybe she did know but didn't want to look at it. Maybe she did know but there's all kinds of lies you tell yourself when you want to.

Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.

Most people who know they've fucked up manage to find a way to justify themselves.

The human mind is capable of rationalizing any behavior.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.' And another time, 'The grass isn't greener on the other side. It's greener where you water it.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

Lacking a good explanation, the mind defaults to whatever explanation is on the table, regardless of how improbable it may be.

She likes to use the word "realistically" which I come to realize is a rationale, an excuse, to not plan ahead because much of what she might want for herself, upon reflection does not seem realistic.

there was another rationalization: Trump was "inspirational not operational.