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“How much truth is contained in something can be best determined by making it thoroughly laughable and then watching to see how much joking around it can take. For truth is a matter that can withstand mockery, that is freshened by any ironic gesture directed at it. Whatever cannot withstand satire is false.”
― Critique of Cynical Reason
― Critique of Cynical Reason
“People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think.”
― Blindsight
― Blindsight
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