Max

“No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.”
― Karl Popper

“Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Our everyday, traditional ideas of reality are delusions which we spend substantial parts of our daily lives shoring up, even at the considerable risk of trying to force facts to fit our definition of reality instead of vice versa. And the most dangerous delusion of all is that there is only one reality.”
― Paul Watzlawick, How Real Is Real? Confusion, Disinformation, Communication

“The war of ideas is a Greek invention. It is one of the most important inventions ever made. Indeed, the possibility of fighting with with words and ideas instead of fighting with swords is the very basis of our civilization, and especially of all its legal and parliamentary institutions.”
― Karl R. Popper, Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge