Noun
The act or process of rationalizing.
Source: Webster's dictionaryYour conscious life is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning. Karen Horney
The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment. An attempt to falsify the actuality of knowledge, to regard knowledge as a goal still to be reached. Franz Kafka
Theology is the post hoc rationalization of what you want to believe. Jerry Coyne
Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one's emotions. Ayn Rand
The more a religion is aware of its opposition in principle to economic rationalization as such, the more apt are the religion's virtuosi to reject the world, especially its economic activities. Max Weber