Karl

“Can an ass be tragic? To perish under a burden one can neither bear nor throw off? The case of the philosopher.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Virtue signaling can best be explained as the devotion of a person’s entire existence to explaining how wonderful they (and their friends) are, and how terribly wrong everyone else is. The point of virtue signaling is to demonstrate superiority, for the purpose of consolidating power, prestige and financial reward. The culture of social justice is set up to reward the loudest and best complainers and to punish anyone that stands against them.”
― Milo Yiannopoulos, Forbidden Thoughts

“It was sometimes praised as a noble public endeavor, but nearly all other Atlanteans found more important things to do on any given day than help. Even the Atlantean nobles ignored the prospect of somebody other than themselves obtaining unchallengeable power, which a less experienced cynic might expect to catch their attention. With relatively little support, the tiny handful of would-be makers of this device labored under working conditions that were not so much dramatically arduous, as pointlessly annoying. Eventually time ran out and Atlantis was destroyed with the device still far from complete.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky

“If science is a religion, it is the religion that heals the sick and reveals the secrets of the stars.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, Rationality: From AI to Zombies