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  1. Marshall McLuhan _ Understanding Media: The

    Rationality or consciousness is itself a ratio or proportion among the sensuous components of experience, and is not something added to such sense experience. Subrational beings have no means of achieving such a ratio or proportion in their sense lives but are wired for fixed wave lengths, as it were, having infallibility in their own area of experience. Consciousness, complex and subtle, can be impaired or ended by a mere stepping-up or dimming-down of any one sense intensity, which is the procedure in hypnosis. And the intensification of one sense by a new medium can hypnotize an entire community.
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  2. Alain de Botton _ Art as Therapy

    One could be forgiven for supposing that rationality {or, more softly, 'reasonableness'} is irrelevant – and even possibly opposed – to being a good lover. This is perhaps because we tend to think of love as a feeling, rather than as an achievement of intelligence. A reasonable or rational person is not one who is only interested in logic, or someone who tries in a cold, robotic fashion to substitute calculation and analysis for kindness or yearning. We are reasonable when we are moved by accurate explanation. Thus a reasonable person is slow to anger; they do not jump to conclusions
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  3. Ellis Peters _ Brother Cadfael's Penance

    The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.
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  4. David Graeber _ The Utopia of Rules: On

    When an economist attempts to prove that it is "irrational" to vote in national elections {because the effort expended outweighs the likely benefit to the individual voter}, they use the term because they do not wish to say "irrational for actors for whom civic participation, political ideals, of the common good are not values in themselves, but who view public affairs only in terms of personal advantage.
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  5. Richard P. Feynman _ What Do You Care What Other

    Why make yourself miserable saying things like, "Why do we have such bad luck? What has God done to us? What have we done to deserve this?" - all of which, if you understand reality and take it completely into your heart, are irrelevant and unsolvable. They are just things that nobody can know. Your situation is just an accident of life."
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  6. Iain Pears _ The Dream of Scipio

    Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- the more so, perhaps, for being untrained, for he had not learned what he should believe or should not believe. Present a statement to him in flagrant contradiction to all Christian doctrine and he could be persuaded to agree on its good sense, unless he remembered it was the sort of thing of which pyres are made for the incautious.
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  7. Iain Pears _ The Dream of Scipio

    Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it sees the irrationality of others, it must seek to correct it, and can do this either by teaching or engaging in public affairs itself, correcting through its practice. And the purpose of action is to enable philosophy to continue, for if men are reduced to the material alone, they become no more than beasts.
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  8. Richard Matheson _ Collected Stories, Vol. 1

    It was a fairy tale, no fooling. It was unreality becoming real. This frightened her. Because people don't care for unreality becoming real. It pricks their well-fed minds, you see, with something like a hunger pang. They prefer the logical stuffiness of expectancy. It is only at certain times that they weaken, letting imagination in. That's the time to get them. {"The Disinheritors"}
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  9. Hermann Hesse _ The Journey to the East

    Faith is stronger than so-called reason.
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  10. Tim Kreider _ We Learn Nothing

    You'd think that it would make them all the more credible to be free of any obvious agenda or emotional bias, motivated only by objective logic. But there's something off-putting about these hyperrational types; they're immune to any appeals to common sense or humor, the for fuck's sake defense. {...} As Kim Stanley Robinson writes, "An excess of reason is in itself a form of madness".
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  11. Jane Austen _ Sense and Sensibility

    Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
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  12. Jane Austen _ Persuasion

    I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
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