Lil

“Our sense of our own freedom results from our not paying attention to what it is actually like to be what we are. The moment we do pay attention, we begin to see that free will is nowhere to be found, and our subjectivity is perfectly compatible with this truth. Thoughts and actions simply arise in the mind. What else could they do? The truth about us is stranger than many suppose: The illusion of free will is itself an illusion.”
― Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

“Knowing what a person believes on a certain subject is not identical to knowing how that person thinks.”
― Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

“The Circe of mankind, morality, has falsified all psychologica to its very foundations - has moralized it - to the point of the frightful absurdity that love is supposed to be 'unegoistic' . . . One has to be firmly set upon oneself, one has to stand bravely upon one's own two legs, otherwise, one can not love at all.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Why I Am so Clever