“The sunk cost fallacy is most dangerous when we have invested a lot of time, money, energy, or love in something. This… — Rolf Dobelli Copy Share Image
It is the 'zoomorphic' or 'rattomorphic' fallacy - the expressed or implicit contention that there is no essential difference between rat and… — Ludwig von Bertalanffy Copy Share Image
Life may be miraculous in its unlikelihood in the universe, but it would be a fallacy to suggest that its rareness makes… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
What does one have to do today to reconcile France? Distribute public money - that's what some expect, especially the radical left.… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There's a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol'… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
It's a critical fallacy of our times ... that a writer should 'grow,' 'change,' or 'develop.' This fallacy causes us to expect… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The largest cultural menace in America is the conformity of the intellectual cliques which, in education as well as the arts, are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One of the deep prejudices that the age of mechanism instilled in our culture, and that infects our religious and materialist fundamentalisms… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“The fallacy here? The subtle movement from seeing forsaking sin as the fruit of grace that is rooted in election, to making… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Another fallacy comes creeping in whose errors you should be meticulous in trying to avoid. Don't think our eyes, our bright and… — Titus Lucretius Carus Copy Share Image
The general nature of the speech act fallacy can be stated as follows, using "good" as our example. Calling something good is… — John Searle Copy Share Image
“There is an universal tendency amongst mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities, with… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Zoocentrism is the primary fallacy of human sociobiology, for this view of human behavior rests on the argument that if the actions… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should insist on the need to engage in a meaningful debate on the entire issue of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I cannot give up on my values and beliefs for the sake of respecting someone else’s values and morals. Because those values… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The capacity for loving strangers, whether one thinks of them as fictional beings or stars one will never meet, is a profound… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between… — William Osler Copy Share Image
The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
At least half of the popular fallacies about economics come from assuming that economic activity is a zero-sum game, in which what… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Never say, and never take seriously anyone who says, 'I cannot believe that so-and-so could have evolved by gradual selection.' I have… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
You're never in control. That - that is the greatest fallacy of the - you know, there's over 200 people that it… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
“We like stories, we like to summarize, and we like to simplify, i.e., to reduce the dimensions of matters…the narrative fallacy is… — Nassim Taleb Copy Share Image
It is a fallacy to believe that a Republic of any kind can be won through the shackled Free State. You can't… — Liam Mellows Copy Share Image
“Belief in the Law of Small Numbers” teased out the implications of a single mental error that people commonly made—even when those… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Probably the most pervasive false belief most of us harbor is the fallacy that only some superhuman act would have the power… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The key insight of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is misleadingly simple: if an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Those who have read history with discrimination know the fallacy of those panegyrics and invectives which represent individuals as effecting great moral… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
It is a fallacy to think that carping is the strongest form of criticism: the important work begins after the artist's mistakes… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
To show mercy is not naïve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It is fundamentally… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
A science only advances with certainty, when the plan of inquiry and the object of our researches have been clearly defined; otherwise… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
“[...] a familiar art historical narrative [...] celebrates the triumph of the expressive individual over the collective, of innovation over tradition, and… — Grant H. Kester Copy Share Image
The narrative fallacy addresses our limited ability to look at sequences of facts without weaving an explanation into them, or, equivalently, forcing… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The fallacy is that politicians don't really do much about social issues. They just demonize their opponents as elitists and reap the… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
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