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Reason is inherently expansionist. It seeks universal application.
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The rational reasons were all rationales for an underlying irrationality.
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The whole interest of my reason, whether speculative or practical, is concentrated in the three following questions: What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? (Critique of Pure Reason
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We have a high moral responsibility to be rational
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Human reason has the peculiar fate ... that it is burdened with questions that it cannot dismiss ... but which it also cannot answer.
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Every attempt to explain human behavior, especially the irrational, must as a matter of course end in simplification.
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at what point do the rationalizations strip you of your humanity?
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The ultimate solutions to problems are rational; the process of finding them is not.
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Reason has, especially today, many other manifestations than philosophical ones.
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Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.
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Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.
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Reason is nothing without imagination.
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Reason is the tool men use to determine if their statements about reality are valid: there is no other. Those who do not or cannot reason are little better than slaves because their lives are controlled by the ideas of other men, ideas they have not examined.
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At the end of reasons comes persuasion.
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I once heard someone say that when we rationalize, we tell "rational lies.
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You can rationalize anything, but that is not total honesty, only your version of it based on your upbringing and experiences outside of everyone else's reality.
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Reason is an outcome of frailty and resentment. When Will fails to cope with the labour of life, or the life of labour, its fragile remnants are set to construct a slighter world of justifications.
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Being rational is a moral Imperative. You should never be stupider than you need to be.
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Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.
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What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
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It is important to reclaim for humanity the ground that has been taken from it by various arbitrarily narrow formulations of the demands of rationality
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The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change.
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Our reason has this peculiar fate that, with reference to one class of its knowledge, it is always troubled with questions which cannot be ignored, because they spring from the very nature of reason, and which cannot be answered, because they transcend the powers of human reason.
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Being rational - along with being clear and honest - are important if we are to create the needed shift in fundamental thinking necessary to make it possible to pull this world back from the brink of multiple disasters on ecological, cultural, political, and economic fronts.
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Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable.
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Reason elevates our thoughts as high as the stars, and leads us through the vast space of this mighty fabric; yet it comes far short of the real extent of our corporeal being.
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Reason has survival value, but when overused at the expense of our intuition, feeling, and spirit, reason cuts us off from discovering our full potential.
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Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.
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Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and feeling. If the two functions are torn apart, thinking deteriorates into schizoid intellectual activity and feeling deteriorates into neurotic life-damaging passions.
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Reasons get forgotten.
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our irrationality happens the same way, again and again. Whether we are acting as consumers, businesspeople, or policy makers, understanding how we are predictably irrational provides a starting point for improving our decision making and changing the way we live for the better.
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The essence of extended rationality is to know when you are being irrational.
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With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations.
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A rational analysis of the consequences of a decision does not make the decision rational; the consequences do not determine our decision; it is always we who decide.
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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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explained is the statement
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What has reasoning to do with painting?
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Reason is necessary. It is necessary to deal with the world.
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Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature, but which it cannot answer, as they transcend every faculty of the mind.
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Becoming fully rational is not enough anymore; evidently it can lead to distortions of all the great human possibilities.
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The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.
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Rationality is a luxury. It can flourish only when protected and nourished...
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Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.
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You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.
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I must be allowed to add some explanatory remarks to bring the subject home to reason-to that sluggish reason, which supinely takes opinions on trust, and obstinately supports them to spare itself the labour of thinking.
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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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A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
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The more critical reason dominates, the more impoverished life becomes. When reason is overvalued, the individual suffers a loss. Relying more on facts and rationality than on imagination and theory detracts from the quality of a person's intellectual life.
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You can't rationally argue out
what wasn't rationally argued in.
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understand them.
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I didn't know that empty rationalization was part of your programming," said Ram.
"We would not be fit companions for human beings without it.
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What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational
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Rationalization: This is a close cousin of intellectualization. It occurs when we are so afraid of feeling pain, disappointment, or guilt that we make up a logical argument to reduce these feelings.
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There are reasons, and then there are excuses.
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Reason can be used only when looking critically back.
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The genuine rationalist does not think that he or anyone else is in possession of the truth; nor does he think that mere criticism as such helps us achieve new ideas. But he does think that, in the sphere of ideas, only critical discussion can help us sort the wheat from the chaff.
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If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.
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Human beings aren't rational animals; we're rationalizing animals who want to appear reasonable to ourselves.
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Let reason alone decide
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Rational discourse is only one way of presenting and examining an issue and by no means the best. Our new intellectuals are not aware of its limitations and of the nature of the things outside.
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Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go.
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What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French.
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Among the enduring truths I keep bumping into when there is the luxury of time to get to know people or institutions, is that their decisions are often made for what are not, strictly speaking, reasons of logic.
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The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality.
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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.
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There is no such thing as a rational person. We are emotional creatures with some token capacity for reason.
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If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.
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Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species.
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It is sometimes rational to do what is wrong, and sometimes irrational to do what is right
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The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.
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In the heat of the moment, rational thinking tends to elude us.
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The exercise of reason is not available only to specialists; it is accessible to everyone.
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reason on specific
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Reason is not one tool of thought among many, it is the entire toolbox. To advocate that reason be discarded in some circumstances is to advocate that thinking be discarded - which leaves one in the position of attempting to do a job after throwing away the required instrument.
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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We are forced to fall back on fatalism as an explanation of irrational events (that is to say, events the reasonableness of which we do not understand).
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Excuses are lies wrapped up in reasons.
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The irrational invalidates any meaning attached to it.
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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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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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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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Having rationally decided to become less rational, we hoped to find new, meaningful, exciting, useful truths. Folk
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Reason is your means of survival - so that for you, who are a human being, the question 'to be or not to be' is the question 'to think or not to think..'.
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An excuse is what you make after the deed is done, while a justification is what you offer before.
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Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.
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We think, each of us, that we're much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our decisions because we have good reasons to make them. Even when it's the other way around. We believe in the reasons, because we've already made the decision.
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Rules and particular inferences alike are justified by being brought into agreement with each other. A rule is amended if it yields an inference we are unwilling to accept; an inference is rejected if it violates a rule we are unwilling to amend.
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Reasons come first. Answers come second
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Reason drives your search to make sense of the world by pushing you to ask why things are as they are. For theoretical reason, the outcome of that search becomes science; for practical reason, the outcome is a more just world.
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Reason is the illusion of reality
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Reason may catnap for a time, but the irrational is more often comatose. In the end it will be the irrational that is forever caged in dreams, while reason gains the day.
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Human reason is by nature architectonic."

Critique of Pure Reason
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Rational was for people who didn't have a broken heart.
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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 rationalist is simply someone for whom it is more important to learn than to be proved right; someone who is willing to learn from others - not by simply taking over another's opinions, but by gladly allowing others to criticize his ideas and by gladly criticizing the ideas of others
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Reason is a passion; an instinct, a drive.
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We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.
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For hundreds of pages the closely-reasoned arguments unroll, axioms and theorems interlock. And what remains with us in the end? A general sense that the world can be expressed in closely-reasoned arguments, in interlocking axioms and theorems.
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We do moral reasoning not to reconstruct the actual reasons why we ourselves came to a judgment; we reason to find the best possible reasons why somebody else ought to join us in our judgment.