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To agree is just as much an exercise of critical judgement on your part as to disagree.
To agree without understanding is insane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.

A person is wrongly thought to be teachable if he is passive and pliable. On the contrary, teach-ability is an extreme active virtue.

One of the most familiar tricks of the orator or propagandist is to leave certain things unsaid, things that are highly relevant to the argument, but that might be challenged if they were made explicit.

Human mind is sensitive to arguments as our eyes is to the colors.

“...But philosophers often find it necessary to coin new words, or to take some word from common speech and make it a technical word.”

We often say “you are what you eat,” but evolutionary logic dictates that sometimes “you are what you’d rather not eat.”

First stage of analytical reading
1, Classify the book according to kind and subject matter.
2, State what the whole book is about with the utmost brevity.
3, Enumerate it’s major parts in their order and relation, and outline these parts as you have outlined the whole
4, Define the problem or problems the author is trying to solve.

Natural selection constantly pushes organisms toward optimal it’s, but optimistic is almost always impossible to achieve.

What are human bodies adapted for?

The questions you should ask:
What is the book about as a whole?
What is being said in details and how?
Is this book true, in whole or in part?
What of it?

Every book should be read no more slowly than it deserves, and no more quickly than you can read it with satisfaction and comprehension.

Laboratory and field research can tell us only about life as we have sampled it here.

We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone one earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

One unique feature of man, which may or may not have evolved me’mically, is his capacity for conscious foresight.

The meme for blind faith secures it’s own perpetuation by the simply unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

Those genes that behave in such a way as to increase their numbers in future gene pools tend to be the genes whose effects we see in the world.

“... The rule’s ‘definition’ of a member of the school who is drowning might be something like:’ A long thing thrashing about and choking near the surface.’
This is so cute hahaha

If resident, attack; if intruder, retreat.

The true purpose of DNA is to survive, no more and no less.