Quote by Christopher Hitchens

“Look into the irrationality closely, with a determination not to respect it, and not to let it dominate you. Whenever it thrusts foolish thoughts…

— Bertrand Russell

“The most amusing experience I keep having happens when someone tries to defeat me with arguments on psychology and spirituality. They forget that I'm…

— Robin Sacredfire

“The faster you strip cultures down, the more you find contrariness and disputation, rather than a solid core, until eventually you reach the individual,…

— Nick Cohen

“...and I reminded myself that the reproach of intellectualism is often directed at the most sensitive natures, those most ardently alive, those obliged by…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“It is the others you must convince, the ignorant masses, yet paradoxically, they are the ones hardest for you to reach. Theirs are the…

— Peter F. Hamilton

“Pity the theory which sets itself in opposition to the mind! It cannot repair this contradiction by any humility, and the humbler it is…

— Carl Von Clausewitz

“Teach the ignorant. Study the wise. Avoid the foolish. Embrace the enlightened. Conquer your vices. Exploit your virtues. Release your vices. Embrace your higher…

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“The conversation progressed, bumper-car style, to a very heated discussion about death and the survival of the soul. It amazes me that we, as…

— Bill Richardson

“Those whose acquaintance with scientific research is derived chiefly from its practical results easily develop a completely false notion of the mentality of the…

— Dean Radin

“Because it is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational. The more cultivated a person is, the more intelligent, the more repressed, then…

— Donna Tartt

“Today, intelligence is neither recognized nor rewarded, but is being systematically extinguished in a growing flood of brazenly flaunted irrationality.”

— Ayn Rand

“WE END UP with the following situation: on the one hand, we have a news agenda dominated by reports of the workings of a…

— Alain de Botton