I am not anti-rational, just unrational. You may infer a rational meaning in what I say or do, but it is your doing, not mine.

Rationalizing is not a tool for penetration of reality but a post-factum attempt to harmonize one's own wishes with existing reality.

I didn't mean you were stupid. It's just that you're not logical, which isn't the same thing at all.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

[B]ecoming more rational, or not feeling the emotions of social slights, is not part of the human race... not with our current biology. There is no solace to be found from reasoning...

Mary! Mary! My dear, let me reason with you.
I hate reasoning, John, — especially reasoning on such subjects. There's a way you political folks have of coming round and round a plain right thing; and you don't believe in it yourselves, when it comes to practice. I know you well enough, John. You don't believe it's right any more than I do; and you wouldn't do it any sooner than I.

People aren't always rational, countries aren't always rational. Fascism is not rational.

Alike and Equal are not the same.

Like and equal are not the same thing at all.

It is not the same thing. You are perhaps not lying, but you are not telling the truth.

Choosing beliefs freely is not what rational minds do.

Knowing what a person believes on a certain subject is not identical to knowing how that person thinks.

A criticism of an idea is not the same as a criticism of a person. [...] Ideas don't deserve dignity; people deserve dignity.

The acknowledgement of complexity, however, certainly does not lead to the conclusion that anything goes.