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The most rational defender of nature is driven by a passion for wildness that cannot be explained by an appeal to logic.
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I'm a pragmatist.
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There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition, the other with scorn for abstraction. The latter is just as irrational as the former is inartistic.
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The reader who thinks that rationality does not require a definition should ponder the following: I'll give you a million dollars to do something irrational.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
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I am an atheist, a rationalist and a humanist.
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There are all too many who, on account of their notorious ineptitude, thrive better in a rationalist system than in freedom. Freedom is one of those difficult things.
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The term that best describes me now is 'secular humanist.'
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The only thing rational about man, the rational animal, is his ability to rationalize his own present position.
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Few things are as destructive and limiting as a worldview that assumes people are mostly rational.
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I'm a rational person, and I'm not a method actor. You don't need to call me by my character's name while I'm not shooting.
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I am a reasonable and sane functionalist tempered by irrational frivolity.
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The world is not a rational place.
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Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown.
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Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.
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Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.
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Fuck rational thought
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Rationality is not just something you do so that you can make more money, it is a binding principle. Rationality is a really good idea. You must avoid the nonsense that is conventional in one's own time. It requires developing systems of thought that improve your batting average over time.
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An educated theologian: someone who's better at rationalizing what they're pretending to know.
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A rational nature admits of nothing but what is serviceable to the rest of mankind.
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The sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to anything beyond explanation.
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A call for revolution wrapped in the clothing of rationality.
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Another religious fanatic to whom facts and reality took second place to dogma.
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As Obama prepares to begin the last year of his presidency, he stands in an unusual position on the national stage: He is the rationalist, a creature of intellect rather than emotion.
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We have a high moral responsibility to be rational
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It is for this reason that rationality is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species ... even more, in those less fortunate times in which it is despised and rejected as the vain dream of men who lack the virility to kill where they cannot agree.
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I'm a lot of things, but rational where the people I love are concerned has never been one of them.
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The term trans-rational is emblematic of a worldview within which rationality is included and transcended, not repressed or dismissed.
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Rationalism crashes in the tails.
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The only condition for such brand of more sophisticated rationalism: to believe and act as if one does not have the full story - to be sophisticated you need to accept that you are not so.
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For they have no conception how a rational creature can be compelled, but only advised, or exhorted; because no person can disobey reason, without giving up his claim to be a rational creature.
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A person who wants to believe lives in a world full of proof.
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I shall die ... as I have lived, rationalist, socialist, pacifist, and humanitarian.
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If you take an objection in the 'relative', it is intellectual rationalism. 'We' don't have intellectual rationalism. 'We' are abuddha (do not have intellect) in the 'relative', and we are a Gnani [the enlightened one] in the 'real'.
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Danny the whole idea of proving that people weren't rational felt a bit like proving that people didn't have fur. Obviously people were not rational, in any meaningful sense of that term.
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A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty of others.
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You need one whole hell of a lot of rationality before it does anything but lead you into new and interesting mistakes.
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We are born to be, if we please, rational creatures, but it is use and exercise only that makes us so, and we are indeed so no farther than industry and application has carried us.
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In our modern world we have seen inaugurated the reign of a dull bourgeois rationalism, which finds some inadequate reason for all things in heaven and earth and makes a god of its own infallibility.
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The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.
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People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think.
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A Spendthrift.-He has not yet the poverty of the rich man who has counted all his treasure,-he squanders his spirit with the irrationalness of the spendthrift Nature.
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She was one who wished to believe the human motives precede actions for she was (she had always been) a rational individual yet clearly there were times (was this one of those times?) when actions might precede motives and even render them useless.
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Futilitarianism.
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anti-intellectual
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Driven by a concern with institutions, we re-enter the world of the behavioralists. But we do so not in protest against the notion of rational choice, but rather in an effort to understand how rationality on the part of individuals leads to coherence at the level of society. (Bates 1988, p. 399)
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The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.
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I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist.
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What absurd fellows you are, both of you! I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given.
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The idea that reason and rationality is somehow separate from and antithetical to ones ' heart' is one of the most absurd theologies I have ever in my life heard."


~R. Alan Woods ("Just Keeping It Real", Copyright 2012)
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Rationality went down the drain donkey's years ago and hasn't been seen since.
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I am a rational man, but haven't you heard? i'm also insane. It gives me a unique perspective on things.
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...[F]reedom... is a property of all rational beings.
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I would describe myself as a 'total conservative, a conscientious one.'
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To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.
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Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.
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Rationalism is false not because it seeks to express reality in rational mode, so far as this possible, but because it seeks to embrace the whole of reality in the realm of reason, as if the reason coincides with the very principle of things.
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Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.
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Rationality doesn't exist; right is absence of wrongness and wrong is what seems to be unfair.
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We are not rational animals; we are rationalizing animals.
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He was a convinced but hardworked rationalist, always hard at it re-convincing himself of his convictions.
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Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
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A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.
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I guess I can call myself a pragmatist with a conservative perspective. It would be hard for me to explain this, but I always take realities of today, lessons from the distant and recent past into consideration.
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They will get it straight one day at the Sorbonne.
We shall return at twilight from the lecture
Pleased that the irrational is rational
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I am certainly a romantic, but with a good scientific and rationalist half: thus, from this conflict I sometimes come out victorious, but exhausted.
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Rational truth - and all truth is rational - is essentially that which can justify itself under criticism and in discussion.
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My only definition is that I am a pragmatist.
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Becoming rational is really simple task,all that you want to do is staying in central of superstition and immature criticizes
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I'm a traditionalist.
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From any rational point of view I am absurd; but there are no longer any rational points of view.
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Wisdom lies in thinking. The spear-head of thinking is rationalism
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Baptize yourself with the flow of rational thinking and the world is bound to become rational.
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A wise man has told us that "men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in."
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Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and the naive faith requires necessary illusion and emotionally potent oversimplifications which are provided by the myth-maker to keep ordinary person on course.
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The person who follows the pursuit of reason unflinchingly toward its end will be atheistic or, at best, agnostic.
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Rationalization is foreplay with one's conscience.
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Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.
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Skepticism is my nature. Free Thought is my methodology. Agnosticism is my conclusion. Atheism is my opinion. Humanitarianism is my motivation.
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One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.
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A person's behavior is rational if it is in his best interests, given his information
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When we look at the world rationally, the world looks rationally back.
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Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.
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Irrationality is part of everyday rationale
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In the end, the final justification of the materialist is not reason, as he so fondly thinks, but mere belief. For it is only by an act of simple faith that he accepts the testimony of sense-experience.
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To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.
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Someone told me I'm a cynical fatalist but I prefer the term realist.
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Conservatives: Self-hating moral relativists, unless you can convince me that an intellectual class that publicly praises family values but privately engages in sodomy, coke and trophy wives is more aptly described in some other way.
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Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.
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Intellectually I'm probably a Republican.
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A relativist is an individual who doesn't know the difference between an adjective and an adverb.
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The rational is apprehended through the intellect, however, the intellect is not found in the region of the rational; the intellect is as the eye and the rational as the colors.
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An idealist. The most dangerous kind of man there was. And
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Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.
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If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
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Rationalizing is not a tool for penetration of reality but a post-factum attempt to harmonize one's own wishes with existing reality.
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It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason.
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Revolutionary in my ideas, liberal in my objectives and conservative in my methods.
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Cynical is a fool's word for realist.