Mahsa

“Only books talked about all the things adults didn't want you to ask about--Life. Death. Good and Evil. And what else truly mattered in life.”
― Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

“Webster’s Third New International Dictionary defines delusion as “a false conception and persistent belief unconquerable by reason in something that has no existence in fact.”45 As an intuitionist, I’d say that the worship of reason is itself an illustration of one of the most long-lived delusions in Western history: the rationalist delusion.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

“Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims.”
― Julian Assange

“Schools don’t teach people to reason thoroughly; they select the applicants with higher IQs, and people with higher IQs are able to generate more reasons. The findings get more disturbing. Perkins found that IQ was by far the biggest predictor of how well people argued, but it predicted only the number of my-side arguments. Smart people make really good lawyers and press secretaries, but they are no better than others at finding reasons on the other side. Perkins concluded that “people invest their IQ in buttressing their own case rather than in exploring the entire issue more fully and evenhandedly.”22”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion