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«Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.»
Author: David Borenstein
| About:
Emotion,
Feelings
| Keywords:
dangerous, emotions, feelings, logical, rationalize, rationalized, supposed, supposes, The Man, The Man Who
«Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are»
«As long as there are entrenched social and political distinctions between sexes, races, or classes, there will be forms of science whose main function is to rationalize and legitimize these distinctions»
Author: Elizabeth Fee
| About:
Discrimination,
Science
| Keywords:
classes, distinctions, entrenched, entrenches, legitimize, legitimizes, political science, races, rationalize, rationalized, sexes, social class, social classes, social function, social science, social sciences, the Social Sciences
«It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.»
Author: Northrop Frye
| Keywords:
blocks, convictions, elusive, gleaming, gleams, imitations, inertia, insight, intuition, involuntary, irrational, known as, panic, physiological, prejudices, psychological, rationalize, rationalized, structures, stumbling, sudden, thought process, verbal
«To rationalize their lies, people -- and the governments, churches, or terrorist cells they compose -- are apt to regard their private interests and desires as just.»
«At forty-two I decided to become a photographer because it offered a means of creative thought and action. I didn't rationalize this, I just felt it intuitively and followed my intuition, which I have never regretted.»
Author: Wynn Bullock
| About:
Photography
| Keywords:
followed, forty-two, intuition, intuitively, offered, photographer, rationalize, rationalized, regretted
«Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Happiness,
Religion
| Keywords:
mystery, rationalize, rationalized
«There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away.»
Author: Norman Mailer
| Keywords:
debase, debased, debases, debasing, expanding, odyssey, rationalize, rationalized, Utopia, void, void of
«As an atheist you have to rationalize things. . . . Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can't, you have no choice but to be good and scared -- but that's okay!»
Author: Billy Joel
(Pianist, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
atheist, okay, rationalize, rationalized, scared