Quotes About Rationalization

Human reason can excuse any evil.

part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.

People keep making excuses, that's why everthing happens for a reason.

Our politicians always show lame excuse to defend their cripple decisions.

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

Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.

Every vice has its excuse ready.

Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.

The ego is a mean mechanism which mobilizes the absolute strongest rationalization traps in order to preserve itself.

The lies we tell ourselves. Comforting justifications, designed to try and fill the holes in us. I

She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all.

by some obscure process of logic, she felt that her momentary burst of generosity had justified all previous extravagances, and excused any in which she might subsequently indulge.

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

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything.

Maybe. Occam's disposable Bic razor might suggest so.

The only action we have to take is to decide whether we are going to stay closed or open up, accept experience as it is or rationalize it to death. This is what Joseph Campbell meant when he said that what we seek is not the meaning of life but the "experience of being alive.

It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.

Men are inventing ideas every day to justify for themselves and others their actions and needs.

Of all things, men do not like to feel that they are guilty of wrong, and if you make them feel guilt, they will try desperately to justify it on any grounds; but, failing that, and seeing no immediate solution that will set things right without too much cost to their lives and property, they will kill that which evoked in them, the condemning sense of guilt.

Through Nic's drug addiction, I have learned that parents can bear almost anything....I shock myself with my ability to rationalize and tolerate things once unthinkable. The rationalizations escalate....It's only marijuana. He gets high only on weekends. At least he's not using hard drugs....

You know what the scariest part is about people like him? Everything he's doing makes perfect sense in his own mind.

We're as good at talking ourselves out of fear as into it, aren't we? Maybe better.

On a basic level- everything we say- essentially anything that comes out of our mouths is a rationalisation in some form or another