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• We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Ideas, Assuming, Problem

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• If it was as logical as that, I wouldn't continue to feel as bad as I do. I know what you're saying, and you're absolutely right in a way. But logic and rationality only go so far. Then you know what happens? Ha! Then your heart adds its two cents and everything reasonable goes right-out-the-window.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Heart, Two, Add

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• We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Mean, Common Sense

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• He is very fond of me, almost too fond. I could do with less caressing and more rationality. I should like to be less of a pet and more of a friend, if I might choose; but I won't complain of that: I am only afraid his affection loses in depth where it gains in ardour. I sometimes liken it to a fire of dry twigs and branches compared with one of solid coal, very bright and hot; but if it should burn itself out and leave nothing but ashes behind.

  Anne Bronte

  Fire, Pet, Depth

  Anne Bronte (2009). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.301, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There's a beauty to forgiveness, especially forgiveness that goes beyond rationality. Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great & powerful one

  A. J. Jacobs

  Powerful, Unconditional Love, Love Is

  A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

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• Indeed, the highest pleasure of golf may be that on the fairways and far from all the pressures of commerce and rationality, we can feel immortal for a few hours.

  Colman McCarthy

  Golf, May, Pressure

  Colman McCarthy (1977). “The pleasures of the game: the theory free guide to golf”

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• Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings? Not all boats which sail away into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teachers that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.

  Stephen King

  Teacher, Children, Believe

  Stephen King (2016). “It”, p.1174, Simon and Schuster

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• Every one of our sinful actions has a suicidal power on the faculties that put that action forth. When you sin with the mind, that sin shrivels the rationality. When you sin with the heart or the emotions, that sin shrivels the emotions. When you sin with the will, that sin destroys and dissolves your willpower and your self-control. Sin is the suicidal action of the self against itself. Sin destroys freedom because sin is an enslaving power.

  Timothy Keller

  Heart, Suicidal, Self

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• There is no justice in the laws of nature, no term for fairness in the equations of motion. The Universe is neither evil, nor good, it simply does not care. The stars don't care, or the Sun, or the sky. But they don't have to! WE care! There IS light in the world, and it is US!

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Stars, Law, Sky

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• The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and impulses of childhood begin to tell the truth that reason denies.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Memories, Giving, Childhood

  Herbert Marcuse (2015). “Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud”, p.19, Beacon Press

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• Forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Atheist, Jesus, Stars

  YouTube Channel "Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science"/"'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009", www.youtube.com. October 21, 2009.

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• The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

  Plutarch

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

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• There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Life, Crush

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2003). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.30, Algora Publishing

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• In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Impossible, One Thing

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.172, Penguin

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• If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't hold animals superior or even equal to humans. The whole case for behaving decently to animals rests on the fact that we are the superior species. We are the species uniquely capable of imagination, rationality, and moral choice - and that is precisely why we are under an obligation to recognize and respect the rights of animals.

  Brigid Brophy

  Animal, Compassion, Rights

  Brigid Brophy (1966). “Don't Ever Forget: Collected Views and Reviews”, London : Cape

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• The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution, which idealism palms off as the totality of being.

  Bertrand Russell

  Imagination, Poverty, Logic

  "Our Knowledge of the External World". Book by Bertrand Russell, p. 9, 1914.

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• Sir, we must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic.

  Winston Churchill

  Innovation, Logic

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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• If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the nature of the being, the principle of equality requires that its suffering be counted equally with the like suffering - insofar as rough comparisons can be made - of any other being. So the limit of sentience is the only defensible boundary of concern for the interests of others. To mark this boundary by some other characteristic like intelligence or rationality would be to mark it in an arbitrary manner. Why not choose some other characteristic, like skin color?

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Skin Color, Suffering

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• When in the evening we are alone with our most existential thoughts, it is then that we come face to face with the most precious truths that we discover in our brief existence in this world. Just before fatigue envelopes us, taking us into sleep. We think of what our lives actually mean. And then we know how lucky we are if we still enjoy consciousness, rationality and love. But the greatest of these is love.

  Michael Kirby

  Love, Mean, Sleep

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• While reasons are provided by the facts,...rationality...depends instead on our beliefs. [...] [I]f I believe falsely that my hotel is on fire, it may be rational for me to jump into the canal. But I have no reason to jump. I merely think I do. And, if some dangerous treatment would save your life, but you don't know that fact, it would be irrational for you to take this treatment, but that is what you have most reason to do.

  Derek Parfit

  Believe, Thinking, Fire

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• If we compare a severely defective human infant with a nonhuman animal, a dog or a pig, for example, we will often find the nonhuman to have superior capacities, both actual and potential, for rationality, self-consciousness, communication and anything else that can plausibly be considered morally significant.

  Peter Singer

  Dog, Communication, Animal

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• In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell and only then does it review and inspect the multitudes.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Ideas, Creative, Mind

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• In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches.

  Auguste Comte

  Mean, Research, Mathematics

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• The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.

  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice, Men, Liberty

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.58, Penguin

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