Oh, you humans may prefer empathy and mercy, but that's like intuiting the answer to an equation: you still have to go back and work the problem to be certain you were right. We can come to genuinely moral conclusions by our own paths.

Rachel Hartman
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  3. The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens — tax livestock — labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters. - Stefan Molyneux

  4. Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology. - Stefan Molyneux

  5. We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction. - Stefan Molyneux

More Quotes By Rachel Hartman
  1. How did you merit so much devotion so quickly?' I asked, making no attempt to keep the sarcasm from my voice.' I show them Heaven', said she, without a trace of irony. 'People are so desperate for light'.

  2. I had felt the shot coming; I hadn’t realized the bow was loaded with this very quarrel, perfectly calibrated to hit him hardest. What part of me had been studying him, stockpiling knowledge as ammunition?

  3. The beauty of the place moved me; I loved how the clean air felt in my lungs, how far I was from everything I had ever known. People I'd hurt, people I'd failed, people who thought me a monster. Here there was no monster greater...

  4. I took a break, stretched, tried again, failed, kicked over the music stand (I am not proud of that), and wonder whether I had reached the limits of my musical ability. Maybe I'd never had any. Surely someone with a modicum of talent wouldn't have...

  5. This is my mind's garden, I tend it; I order it. I have nothing to fear.

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