Judith Butler Quotes

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

What we perceive things to be when they come out of our mouth is not what the listener perceives it to be. They think it differently. They're not your blood. They're not your mind. You get in an argument.

The most enduring battle is between head and heart; what would be efficient and logical is nearly always trumped by what is messy and illogical.

I guess I'm interested in people who are very sophisticated in intellectual ways, while being completely off the mark in emotional ones, with these huge blind spots in terms of their own behavior.

If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.

Men are more sentimental than women. It blurs their thinking.

Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. One often obtains a clue to a person's nature by discovering the reasons for his or her imperviousness to certain impressions.

What I'm saying is that I'm trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that's neveer a good sign.

We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.

Men don't want to be confused by the facts when their minds are already made up. Women know the art of negotiation - just ask the mother of a four-year-old who refuses to eat his veggies or the parent of a teenager.

Compelling reason will never convince blinding emotion.

But anyone who thinks themselves genuinely unbiased is bound to be taken in.

There's nothing more annoying than cold logic and reason when you've got a good fit going.

There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.

We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and most people would die sooner than think in fact they do so.

Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious attempt to learn how to think, only to have them usurped by his emotions. But we still try.

Think against your feelings; unmask the unbelief they have nourished; let evangelical thinking correct emotional thinking.

The popular mind has grown so confused that it is no longer able to receive any statement of fact except as an expression of personal feeling.

When reasons are weak, attitudes stiffen.

I've always learned how to deal with my problems through my words, through my education, and through my intelligence, which I think is important and the best way to deal with an issue.

What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.