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Our moral thinking is much more like a politician searching for votes than a scientist searching for truth.
Persuading ourselves so that we can persuade others.
“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
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“The policemen agreed they were living with a most peculiar fellow. One moment he was reading classical literature in the original French and quoting Tennyson, and the next he would be discussing the best way to blow up a train.”
― Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
― Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
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“It's already clear to me how much of life is forgotten even as it happens. Most of it. The unregarded present spooling away from us, the soft tumble of unremarkable thoughts, the long-neglected miracle of existence.”
― Nutshell
― Nutshell
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
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