The reader who thinks that rationality does not require a definition should ponder the following: I'll give you a million dollars to do something irrational.
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
You cannot connect with anyone except through reality.
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Stefan Molyneux
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.
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Stefan Molyneux
Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.
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Stefan Molyneux
We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction.
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Stefan Molyneux
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The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too...
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.
There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.
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