R Quotes
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“Rationality and the instinct of collaboration have already given us large regions and long periods of peace and prosperity. Ultimately, they will lead us to a planet without countries, without wars, without patriotism, without religions, without poverty, where we will be able to share the world. Actually, maybe I am not sure I truly believe that I believe this, but I do want to believe that I believe this.”
“Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.”
Source: Rowdy Buddha: The First Sapiens
“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.”
Source: Moral Man and Immoral Society: Study in Ethics and Politics
“Rationality bends under pressure,
Thought bends under pressure,
Intelligence bends under pressure -
Only love is crazy enough to stand unbent,
even under pressure of cataclysmic proportion.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“Rationality doesn’t exist; right is absence of wrongness and wrong is what seems to be unfair.”
“Rationality is a matter of making allowed moves within language games. Imagination creates the games that reason proceeds to play. Then, exemplified by people such as Plato and Newton, it keeps modifying those games so that playing them is more interesting and profitable.
Reason cannot get outside of the latest circle that imagination has drawn. It is in this sense, and only in this sense, that imagination holds the primacy.”
“Rationality is not a power you are born with but one you acquire through training and practice.”
Source: The Laws of Human Nature
“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.”
“Rationality is not one of this industry's attributes.”
“Rationality is the master lifehack which distinguishes which other lifehacks to use.”
“Rationality is the recognition of the fact that existence exists, that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it, which is thinking—that the mind is one’s only judge of values and one’s only guide of action—that reason is an absolute that permits no compromise—that a concession to the irrational invalidates one’s consciousness and turns it from the task of perceiving to the task of faking reality—that the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind—that the acceptance of a mystical invention is a wish for the annihilation of existence and, properly, annihilates one’s consciousness.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.”
Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)
“Rationality is the way to lead life. So high time,
let’s stop feeding our dreams and shake hands with the reality.”
Source: The Masquerade
“Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.”
“Rationality may be key to establishing peace, but the irrational importance of sacred values is key to establishing lasting peace.”
Source: Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
“Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.”
“Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.”
Source: Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
“Rationality will not save us.”
Source: Official Teacher's Guide for The Fog of War: An Errol Morris Film
“Rationalität ist überbewertet.”
Source: Wanderherzen
“Rationalization for bad choices will not be effective, but repentance will. Those
who repent will be particularly blessed by the Atonement.”
“Rationalization is a cover-up, a process of providing one's emotions with a false identity, of giving them spurious explanations and justifications - in order to hide one's motives, not just from others, but primarily from oneself. The price of rationalizing is the hampering, the distortion, and, ultimately, the destruction of one's cognitive faculty. Rationalization is a process not of perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one's emotions.”
Source: Philosophy: Who Needs It
“Rationalization is a dialogue with ourselves or with like-minded brains. Reasoning, on the other hand, is an honest and open conversation in which we try to persuade interlocutors who don't necessarily agree with us beforehand with arguments that are as universally valid, coherent, and detailed as possible, while opening ourselves to persuasion.”
Source: How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information
“Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.”
Source: Philosophy: Who Needs It
“Rationalization is foreplay with one's conscience.”
Source: Outside In
“Rationalization is one of the real obstacles to obedience.”
“Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.”
Source: Our Inner Conflicts: A CONSTRUCTIVE THEORY OF NEUROSIS
“Rationalize my sadness? What for, if rationalization takes effort? Sad people can't make an effort.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“Rationalizing him and the glass pipe, Dad smoked crack, but he was not a crackhead; it was just something he did. To do something didn't define you, I thought.
I saw Dad through a dusty lens that distorted our relationship, as tarnished as his pipe. He was no longer just our father; he was his own person, with an identity and label and body separate from his relationship with us. He was someone who was judged outside of the lens of fatherhood, outside of our connection. When he was in the streets, he was not Dad. He was Charlie the crackhead.”
Source: Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love So Much More
“Rationalizing is another road that leads to hell.”
“Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error.”
Source: The Mind in the Making
“Rationally considered, nothing can be more absurd than the baptism of infants under any circumstances. No statement, no matter by whom it may be said to have been uttered, can make that true which is radically false. If an innocent child, unconscious of good or evil, irresponsible to God and man, incapable of thought or action, is not already, in accordance with Christian theology, a member of Christ, then no vicarious promise or priestly ablution can make him one. For if this were so, a similar ceremony under devil worship could make him a member of Satan.”
“Rationally, factory farming is so obviously wrong, in so many ways. In all of my reading and conversations, I've yet to find a credible defense of it. But food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, and identity.”
“Rationally I have no hope, irrationally I believe in miracles.”
“Rationally speaking, blaming one's behavior on alcohol or drugs is like blaming the ladder by which you descended into a pit, or the staircase that took you down to a cellar, for what you found there.”
“Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other interest, and very soon orders came to march forthwith to Gettysburg.”
“Ratios matter in Data Science. Dreams should be big and worries small.”
“RATO: E adianta muito, eu me doer por ti? Bereco, eu não conto. Nem eu, nem tu, nem ela. As coisas acontecem sem a gente poder miar. A vontade da gente não conta. Nunca contou. Se os homens vão te apagar, não adianta eu estrilar. Ninguém vai dar pelota. Tu que é tu não vai ter chance. Vai pro beleléu e e fim. Se acaba. E fica por isso mesmo. Nenhum puto vai perder o sono por teu presunto.”
Source: Plínio Marcos: Obras Teatrais - Vol. 1 - Atrás desses muros
“Ratovi ovog vremena ne zahtevaju izlazak na bojno polje. Ratovati se može bilo gde. Bilo kada. Sa bilo kim. Dovoljan je samo jedan link. Poljane pune leševa zamenile su platoforme na kojima se, umesto krvi, prolivaju tajne i ideje – duša čoveka i novac – krvotok mnogih ljudi. Domeni su postali nove teritorije. Plan rata je zamenjen precizno napisanim kodom. Obuka koju ratnici prolaze ne zahteva fizičku izdržljivost, već fokusiranost ratnika na tren koji može obrnuti planetu. Pobede, umesto jačima, pripadaju pametnijima. Iako bi neko pomislio da su ovakvi ratovi smešni jer ratnici ne gube živote niti krvare, ta pomisao jedna je od najvećih zabluda današnjice. Nož, sablja, top ili tenk... Nikada nisu razmišljali. Ratniku su pružali nadgradnju fizičke snage. Današnje oružje misli na identičan način kao ljudski mozak, ali se razvija znatno brže. Računar pamti čak i ono što čovek uspe da zaboravi. Ipak, ma kada bili i ma koliko različičiti bili... Rat je rat! Nikada nož nije ubijao. Ubijao je onaj koji drži nož. Ni kompjuter ne ubija. Ubija onaj koji sedi ispred njega.”
Source: Profajler
“Rats always find their way off sinking ships.”
Source: Lords of the Sith
“Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.”
Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry
“Rats are just Ziploc bags full of disease.”
“Rats died in the street; men in their homes. And newspapers are concerned only with the street.”
“Rats have a sense of humor. Rats, in fact think the world is very funny. And they are right, dear reader. They are right.”
“RATS. In sewers. In religions. In words like pirate, desperate, and narrative. Rats infest this glossary as surely as words and mushrooms.”
Source: City of Saints and Madmen
“Rats! It's rainy outside,
And to be a good fella
Invite a smile so wide
Nobody needs umbrella!”
Source: ACross Tic
“Rats live on no evil star”
Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters
“Rats, the only creatures that seemed to flourish in the trenches, were quite brave and were often a foot long (not including the tail), the size of a small cat. They grew fat on the corpses in No Man’s Land and were known to bite sleeping soldiers’ faces and gather around the eating areas. The French left the rats alone. Like a canary in a coal mine, the rats were a warning that gas shells had been fired. At the slightest whiff of gas, the large rats flipped feet up, dead. The Americans hated them too much to leave them alone. They bludgeoned the rats with shovels and rifle butts or shot them with their side arms.”
Source: Courage: Roy Blanchard's Journey in America's Forgotten War
“Rats They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles. Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats.”
“Rats will eat birdfeed for as long as they're mazed and fed.”
Source: 1. Obviates: Predicate, Show Adult