Cynicism Quote by Wataru Watari

“Sometimes I think the urge to believe in our own worldview is our most powerful intellectual imperative, the mind’s equivalent of feeding, fighting, and…

— Barry Eisler

“If norms are oppressive, try to foster acceptance of deviations, don't try to destroy the norms themselves — that's a fool's errand.”

— T.J. Kirk

“When a heroine is satisfied that she has exercised judgement with clear vision, moral principle,and common sense, she need not acquiesce to opposing viewpoints.”

— Jane Austen

“most of us do not realize that we distort our own view of the world, largely because we think we see more than we…

— Ed Catmull

“How disquieting to realise that reality is an illusion, at best a democratisation of perception based on participant consensus.”

— Irvin D. Yalom

“[Seeing clearly] is not so difficult to achieve, and yet it is rather unusual. To my mind, it is less a question of an…

— Victor Serge

“The notion that someone who does not hold your views holds the reciprocal of them, or simply hasn't got any, has, whatever its comforts…

— Clifford Geertz

“a tendency for people to view their own beliefs as reality.”

— Peter H. Diamandis

“[T]he mere existence of others who have radically different beliefs about the nature of reality poses an explicit challenge to the claims of absolute…

— Sheldon Solomon Jeff Greenberg and Tom Pyszczyinski

“There is a view of life which conceives that where the crowd is, there is also truth. There is another view of life which…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“Enlightenment, broadly construed, is to be undeluded about how the world is and how best to live.”

— Thomas W. Clark

“...when the daily reality presents itself as uncomprehendable, we fashion our own myths and then hold those phony truths to be inalienable.”

— Marianne Wiggins