One of chief pieces of advice I give to aspiring rationalists is "Don't try to be clever." And, "Lis

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When we sense something, it is due to the movement of atoms in space. When I see the moon it is beca

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Dove la moralità è troppo forte l'intelletto perisce.

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Enuncia algunos textos muy contundentes. Son textos en los cuales la destreza literaria casi infinit

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It's a sad day for American Capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over central park.

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Zsoronga, Sorweel was beginning to realize, possessed the enviable ability to yoke his conviction to

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Do you understand what I'm saying?"shouted Moist. "You can't just go around killing people!""Why Not

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To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doi

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Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.

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One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to

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How can I know for sure if it's my son speaking and not you?""You never can, my lord. Just as no man

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It is the philosophers, theologians, and evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotr

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Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial—notoriously less stable and less inherent than the

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What never fails inside the mind of an intellectual never works outside the confines of his head. Th

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The boundaries we erect to divide heaven from earth, mind from matter, real from unreal are mere con

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Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a

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In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets

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We belittle what we cannot bear. We make figments out of fundamentals, all in the name of preserving

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What if one were to want to hunt for these hidden presences? You can’t just rummage around like you’

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Do you want to achieve something or do you just want to make money?” asked a nearby man in a white s

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