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“When do the defense measures of a paranoid country become their own agents of self-destruction?”
― Christopher Bollen, Orient

tags: defense, paranoid, self-destruction

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“David Hume, in a moment of acute skepticism, felt panicky in the solitude of his study and had to go out and join his friends in the billiard room in order to be reassured that the external world was really there.”
― William Barrett, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

tags: empiricism, hume, idealism, skepticism

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“If you do not want to be lied to, then you need to stop following politics.”
― Steven Magee

tags: follow, following, lie, lied, political, political-philosophy, political-science, politicians, politicians-logic, politics, politics-of-the-united-states, stop, want

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“When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.”
― Mark Twain, The Autobiography of Mark Twain

tags: brainwashing, doubt, evidence, indoctrination, mind, reason, religion, superstition, theism

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“Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. They thrive on servility and shrink before independence. They feed upon worship as kings do upon flattery. That is why the cry of gods at all times is “Worship us or we perish.” A dethroned monarch may retain some of his human dignity while driving a taxi for a living. But a god without his thunderbolt is a poor object.”
― Chapman Cohen

tags: atheism, fragility, gods, petty, reason, science, theism

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