Rationalise Quotes

“Irrationality is the exclusive preserve of humans as among all creatures only we have the power to rationalise, that being the art of packaging patently irrational as apparently rational.”

“Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.”

“[W]e are hardened to what we know, and we rationalise and even justify cruelties practised by us and our like while retaining the capacity to be outraged, even disgusted by practices equally cruel which, under the hands of strangers, take a different form.”

“...you’d be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical.”