Rationalizes Quotes

#1. Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.

Walter Darby Bannard

#2. Reason rationalizes reality for him (Dr. Nathan) as it does for the rest of us, in the Freudian sense of providing a more palatable or convenient explanation, and there are so many subjects about which we should not be reasonable.

J.G. Ballard

#3. It is in the very fundamentals of evil that one always condemns it when they see it but rationalizes it when they do it.

Jack L. Chalker

#4. The brain, knowing that a person can't live forever in this world, rationalizes a future, or other-dimensional, world in which immortality is possible. In other words, religion is the earliest form of science fiction.

Philip Jose Farmer

#5. A critic is a person who rationalizes his likes and dislikes in such impressive language that the layman thinks he is reasoning instead of rationalizing.

Helen McCloy

#6. Hope criticizes what is, hopelessness rationalizes it. Hope resists, hopelessness adapts.

William Sloane Coffin

#7. Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one process outshouts the others, the brain rationalizes the outcome after the fact and concocts the impression that a single self was in charge all along.

Michio Kaku

#8. With so much money riding on reported numbers, human nature is to manipulate them. And with so many doing it, you get Serpico effects, where everyone rationalizes that it's okay because everyone else is doing it. It is always thus.

Charlie Munger

#9. It has been hard to get my head around how Justice Antonin Scalia rationalizes his decisions. His body blow to the Voting Rights Act was a head scratcher, but at least he was calm when he attempted to justify his odd logic.

Henry Rollins

#10. If you want the Kingdom speeded, go out and speed it yourselves. Only obedience rationalizes prayer. Only Missions can redeem your intercessions from insincerity.

William Carey

#11. I will forget what you said, but I will never forget how lively, joyful and grateful you made me feel.

Debasish Mridha

#12. Is there something to be learned from fast tenderness that wanes just as fast as it forms?

Durga Chew-Bose

#13. I'm wondering. Shall we say its perfect for the sea and the sunlight - and the other Rose is perfect for candlelight? And perhaps what's most perfect of all is to find there are several Roses?

Dodie Smith

#14. Everything in psychosocial evolution which can properly be called advance, or progress, or improvement, is due directionaly to the increase or improvement of knowledge.

Julian Huxley

#15. Young. Old. Just Words.

George Burns

#16. Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

Alphonse De Lamartine