Andy

“Political beliefs, religious beliefs, and conspiratorial beliefs seem impenetrable to facts that contradict them.”
― Robert Carroll, The Critical Thinker's Dictionary: Biases, Fallacies, and Illusions and What You Can Do About Them

“You can’t improve the things you love if you never allow them to be imperfect. Thinking in this way, if you looked hard enough so that you saw every flaw in every example, you would soon find that nothing matched your expectations or deserved your definitions, and the membership of every group and category you hold dear would drop to zero.”
― David McRaney, You Are Now Less Dumb: How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself

“Every road from Rousseau leads to Sade.”
― Camille Paglia, Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

“Since the beginning
not one unusual thing
has ever happened.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, Rationality: From AI to Zombies