Rationalising Versus Quotes & Sayings

We girls are prewired to like things that make you suffer. — Victoria Scott

If you could touch the alien sand and hear the cries of strange birds, and watch them wheel in another sky, would that satisfy you? — William Hartnell

An instinct is weakened when it rationalises itself: for by rationalising itself it weakens itself. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Osama, yo Mama didn't raise you right. When you were young, she must have wrapped your turban too tight. — Ray Stevens

I try to write in a way where the lyrics have many meanings and you won't really know what's behind it. — Taylor Momsen

The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It's called Denial. — Dan Brown

I'm trying to make order out of chaos, trying to find some way of rationalising the horrific things that people do or the way the world is. — Chuck Palahniuk

You think you can get rid of things, and people too
leave them behind. You don't know yet about the habit they have, of coming back. — Margaret Atwood

He realized at last that the arguments of pessimism were powerless to comfort him — Joris-Karl Huysmans