Quotes About Rationale

Intuition? Yes, from experience I can say that's a kind of knowing that has no rationale, but just rises up your body, your mind, your whole being and lets you know.

My point is, I have a job, just like you. I get a paycheck, I get memos. Just like you, I have superiors, and they have superiors who I am not allowed to speak to. Orders filter down from on high, arriving at my level stripped entirely of all context or rationale or justification. Orders do not come with an illustration of how they serve the overall goals of the organization. Same as any other job.

Everyone has his reasons." Octave (Jean Renoir) in "The Rules of the Game.

The truly terrible thing is, everyone has his reasons

Never do something for just one reason.

I can no longer find any rationale for living. My life is as small as a firefly's. I am always uncomfortable; often I suffer.

You never do anything without a reason." "Of course not. Why do anything without a reason?" "Don't start up with your circular logic.

Thoughts rapping quietly, metallically, distinctly: a mysterious aero carries me to the blue heights of my favorite abstractions. And here in this cleanest sharp air, I see my rationale about my "rights" burst with a light pop, like a pneumatic tire. And I can see clearly that these ideas about "rights" were merely a throwback from a ridiculous superstition of the Ancients.

there should be no love just because, but only 'love because of.

Emotion makes the prospects take action now, and logic enables them to justify the purchase later.

Terrorism has replaced Communism as the rationale for the militarization of the country [America], for military adventures abroad, and for the suppression of civil liberties at home. It serves the same purpose, serving to create hysteria.

Stephanie had no problem doing what she was told, just so long as she was given a good reason why she should.

The rationale for eliminating the alternative minimum tax is that such a backup system should not be necessary if the tax code is fundamentally fair and eliminates all the loopholes that made it possible for high-income taxpayers to escape taxation in the first place.

The Catholic teaching against murder, for example, is largely the same as our secular laws. But as a law, it obviously has a secular rationale at least as strong as its religious rationale.

Many reasons had been given, and every man adopted the rationale which suited his own particular emotionality. But what seemed obvious at the time became less so as the years passed. Professors of history argued, experts in economics demurred, psychologists begged to differ, and anthropologists felt it necessary to point out.

Yet there is no acceptance to be found in my heart. This death is unfair. Ignoble, and not justifiable by any measure of rationale. No battle is worth this. No ideals, no political cause, and no bounty. Being here is a mistake. Dying is a mistake. Twenty-two years has not been enough. "--Luke, a Civil War soldier

It isn't what people think that's important, but the reason they think what they think.

Faith was the excuse you used if you didn't have a good argument.

The Führermuseum, the most spectacular art museum in history, culled from the riches of the entire world, gave that pursuit a defining rationale.

A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.

The line between faith and fanaticism is a constantly shifting one," Dr. Poblocki said. "When does belief become justification? When does right become rationale and crusade become crime?

When does belief become justification? When does right become rationale and crusade become crime?

The rationale for tenure is still valid. But the system has turned the academy into one of the most conservative and costly institutions in the country. Yes, conservative: Economists joke that their discipline advances one funeral at a time, but many fields must wait for wholesale generational turnover before new approaches take hold.

The emphasis should be on why we do a job.