The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.

To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization.

Emotion and instinct were the basis of all our decisions, our actions, everything we valued, the way we saw the world. Reason and rationality were a thin coat of paint on a ragged surface.

...reason rationalizes reality for him (Dr. Nathan) as it does for the rest of us, in the Freudian sense of providing a more palatable or convenient explanation, and there are so many subjects about which we should not be reasonable.

Unfortunately, addicts don't respond to reason or rationality.

Faith is stronger than so-called reason.