“Leaders console the world with their speeches, heroes console the world with their actions.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Whoever desires to live among men has to obey their laws this is what the secular morality of Western civilization comes down… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
“Doing worse with more knowledge means you are doing something very wrong.” — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
What should we think of someone who never admits error, never entertains doubt but adheres unflinchingly to the same ideas all his… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
“I have long been of the Opinion, says he, that the Fire was a vast Blessing and the Plague likewise; it gave… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
It is for this reason that rationality is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species...even more, in those less… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“For, from the time that the Bishop of Rome had gotten to be acknowledged for bishop universal, by pretence of succession to… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Dialectic, which is the parent of logic, came itself from rhetoric. Rhetoric is in turn the child of the myths and poetry… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
No vital Christianity is possible unless at least three aspects of it are developed. These are the inner life of devotion, the… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
“The root of liberalism, in a word, is hatred of compulsion, for liberalism has the respect for the individual and his conscience… — Harold Edmund Stearns Copy Share Image
It was while I was studying philosophy that I came to understand. . . that it is no sign of moral or… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Traditions are neither good nor bad, they simply are... Rationality is not an arbiter of traditions, it is itself a tradition or… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
In the Soul is the awaking of Consciousness: Consciousness sets itself up as Reason, awaking at one bound to the sense of… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
It is important to reclaim for humanity the ground that has been taken from it by various arbitrarily narrow formulations of the… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
What I affirm is the intuition that where God's presence is no longer a tenable supposition and where His absence is no… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
If rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans! — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“There is voluminous evidence that exclusive reliance on heuristic processing tendencies of Type I sometimes results in suboptimal responding (Baron, 2008; Evans,… — Keith E. Stanovich Copy Share Image
“The Way of Bayes is also an imprecise art, at least the way I'm holding forth upon it. These blog posts are… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
