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“What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.”
― Eugene T. Gendlin, Focusing

tags: belief, facing-reality, truth

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#2

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: adventuring, death, time

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#3

“You ask a philosopher a question and after he or she has talked for a bit, you don’t understand your question any more.”
― Philippa Foot

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#4

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
― Bertrand Russell

tags: confidence, eccentricity, philosophy

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#5

“The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

tags: books, literature, reading, words

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#6

“That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.”
― P.C. Hodgell, Seeker's Mask

tags: belief, faith, truth

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#7

“It's not that there are no differences between human and non-human animals, any more than there are no differences between black people and white people, freeborn citizens and slaves, men and women, Jews and gentiles, gays or heterosexuals. The question is rather: are they morally relevant differences? This matters because morally catastrophic consequences can ensue when we latch on to a real but morally irrelevant difference between sentient beings.”
― David Pearce

tags: animals, animals-rights, antiracism, antispeciesism, ethics, lgbt, vegan, veganism

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#8

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

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#9

“I predict we will abolish suffering throughout the living world. Our descendants will be animated by gradients of genetically pre-programmed well-being that are orders of magnitude richer than today's peak experiences.”
― David Pearce, The Hedonistic Imperative

tags: biology, ethics, experience, genetic-engineering, hedonism, hedonistic-imperative, philosophy, science, suffering

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#10

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#11

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

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#12

“Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: eternity, heaven, hell

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#13

“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”
― William Gibson

tags: future, planning

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#14

“Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all - no one's around to write horror stories.”
― Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep

tags: disasters, history, writing-history

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#15

“Philosophers should not only interpret our beliefs; when they are false, they should change them.”
― Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons

tags: beliefs, philosophy

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#16

“World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

tags: euphemism, logic, optimisation

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#17

“What people really believe doesn't feel like a BELIEF, it feels like the way the world IS.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

tags: belief, religion

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#18

“Limitations foster creativity. Tell an artist to paint anything, and he may struggle, but tell him to create something specific, in a set amount of time, for a certain audience, and these constraints might well push him to produce something he might never have come up with on his own. We grow and evolve by testing ourselves. That’s my personal philosophy.”
― wildbow, Worm

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#19

“According to studies, clinically depressed individuals have a more accurate grasp of reality than the average person. We tell ourselves lies and layer falsehoods and self-assurances over one another in order to cope with a world colored by pain and suffering. We put blinders on. If we lose that illusion, we crumble into depression or we crack and go mad. So perhaps I’m crazy, but only because I see things too clearly?”
― wildbow, Worm

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#20

“I believe that most of us have false beliefs about our own nature, and our identity over time, and that, when we see the truth, we ought to change some of our beliefs about what we have reason to do.”
― Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons

tags: beliefs, personal-identity, rationality

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#21

“We ought not to do to our future selves what it would be wrong to do to other people.”
― Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons

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#22

“We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.”
― Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

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#23

“You would absolve your Gods of guilt?” Tariq said, sounding surprised.

“You would absolve humanity of responsibility?” Amadeus asked, scornful. “The deferral of consequence to higher power is the deepest form of moral cowardice conceivable. Even your precious Book agrees, Pilgrim – we have a choice.”
― ErraticErrata, A Practical Guide to Evil V

tags: amadeus-of-the-green-stretch, atheism, black-knight, blind-faith, determinism, evil, free-will, gods, good, tariq-isbili

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#24

“Maxim 29:
The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.

-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries”
― Howard Tayler

tags: caution, enemies, humour, rules-to-live-by

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#25

“Maxim 20:
If you’re not willing to shell your own position, you’re not willing to win.

-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries”
― Howard Tayler

tags: military, overkill, rules-to-live-by, strategy, winning

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#26

“Maxim 70:
Failure is not an option. It is mandatory. The option is whether or not to let failure be the last thing you do.

-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries”
― Howard Tayler

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#27

“Facing facts is definitely preferable to facing defeat.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Dorsai!

tags: defeat, facts, success, truth

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#28

“The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but "Can they suffer?”
― Jeremy Bentham (An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (Philosophical Classics), The Principles of Morals and Legislation

tags: animal-rights, moral, vegetarian

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#29

“...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.”
― Jeremy Bentham

tags: philosophy, utilitarianism

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#30

“The quantity of pleasure being equal, push-pin is as good as poetry.”
― Jeremy Bentham

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