Quotes About Rationalization

I lay there alone for hours, crying my eyes out. I was still trying to rationalize the relationship: Why can't I let things just stay as they are? What difference does it make if he's married? But the fact is it did matter. I refused to be second best any longer.

V? e team? de consecin?ele grave ale actelor dumneavoastr? ?i atunci inventa?i o moral? sau o filosofie prin care v? pute?i dispensa de ele.

People were always good at justifying their actions if there was a need, or even the appearance of one, and were quick to turn to violence when necessary.

If you take from a theory only the conclusions you like and discard the rest, you are using the theory as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support rather than illumination.

The voice of Satan is often hard to recognise precisely because it appears so frequently as the voice of common sense, of prudence, of reason.

The individual is still obliged to confer the legitimacy of mutually antagonistic values, for even though the array of ultimate values may contract with the rationalization of the world, one is never relieved from the existential burden of choice ('taking a stand').

The modern world is condemned precisely by all that with which modern man seeks to justify it.

Yes," he said, "intelligence does enable you to deny facts you dislike. But your denial doesn't matter.

we discussed the function of defense mechanisms and found that we were humbled by the power of that portion of our psyche, we began to understand that if it weren't for rationalization, sublimation, denial—all the little tricks we let ourselves perform—if instead we simply saw the world as it was, with nothing to protect us, honestly and courageously, it would break our hearts.

In most societies, organized religion provides a culturally acceptable framework for rationalizing the continuance of magical thinking.

We must do this. It has been prophesied.' You relieve yourself of choice. Relieve yourself of consequences. Torture me, harm me, kill me. Do all these things, but do not pretend there is a must. That is how evil is rationalised.

Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all

Uneori, oamenii au nevoie s? se mint? pe ei în?i?i mai mult decât pe oricine altcineva.

Do all these things, but do not pretend there is a must. That is how evil is rationalized

When people remembered incidents in which they were the perpetrator, they often described the harmful act as minor and done for good reasons. When they remembered incidents in which they were the victims, they were more likely to describe the action as significant, with long-lasting effects, and motivated by some combination of irrationality and sadism. Our own acts that upset others are innocent or forced; the acts that others do to upset us are crazy or cruel.

cognitive dissonance.

In some instances, you may care so much about the person who has hurt you, or be so unable to be angry with him (or with anyone), that you rationalize his hurtful acts by finding some basis in your own actions for his hurtful behavior; you then feel guilty rather than angry. Put in other terms, you become angry with yourself rather than with the one who hurt you.

In the end, we march along a path drawn by our own moral compass. The sum total of our life experiences guides us in a way our conscious minds could never decipher. We make choices without realizing why and trigger events we never foresee. And always we rationalize who we are and why we act the way we do.

When a person projects, they cannot accept a quality that exists in themselves. Instead, they see it in—and project it upon—another person. Essentially, they blame someone else for having the same faults they refuse to see in themselves. HCPs project their own perceived badness and unworthiness onto others. This projection is a defense mechanism that allows them to feel better about themselves, in a manner similar to rationalization and denial. All-or-Nothing

Psychologists call this sort of mental mechanism, in which beliefs conform to behavior rather than the other way around, a response to "cognitive dissonance,