Mind you, I cannot swear that my story is true. It may have been a dream; or worse, a symptom of some severe mental disorder. But I believe it is true. After all, how are we to know what things there are on earth? Strange monstrosities still exist, and foul, incredible perversions. Every war, each new geographical or scientific discovery, brings to light some new bit of ghastly evidence that the world is not altogether the same place we fondly imagine it to be. Sometimes peculiar incidents occur which hint of utter madness.
How can we be sure that our smug conceptions of reality actually exist? To one man in a million dreadful knowledge is revealed, and the rest of us remain mercifully ignorant. There have been travelers who never came back, and research workers who disappeared. Some of those who did return were deemed mad because of what they told, and others sensibly concealed the wisdom that had so horribly been revealed. Blind as we are, we know a little of what lurks beneath our normal life. There have been tales of sea serpents and creatures of the deep; legends of dwarfs and giants; records of queer medical horrors and unnatural births. Stunted nightmares of men's personalities have blossomed into being under the awful stimulus of war, or pestilence, or famine. There have been cannibals, necrophiles, and ghouls; loathsome rites of worship and sacrifice; maniacal murders, and blasphemous crimes. When I think, then, of what I saw and heard, and compare it with certain other grotesque and unbelievable authenticities, I begin to fear for my reason. ("The Mannikin")
Mots clés knowledge rationality paranormal unknown supernatural occult rationalism-intellect
Like many another materialist, that is, he lied cleverly on the basis of insufficient knowledge, because the knowledge supplied seemed to his own particular intelligence inadmissible.
("The Wendigo")
Mots clés rationality materialism rational-thought rationalists materialst
You know what? This isn't about your feelings. A human life, with all its joys and all its pains, adding up over the course of decades, is worth far more than your brain's feelings of comfort or discomfort with a plan. Does computing the expected utility feel too cold-blooded for your taste? Well, that feeling isn't even a feather in the scales, when a life is at stake. Just shut up and multiply.
Eliezer YudkowskyMots clés rationality utilitarianism effective-altruism
The more rational we are, the more emotional we can be.
Nino GruettkeMots clés thinking happiness emotions rationality positive-thinking
The joy from eating does not come from the exclusivity of the food, but instead from the sensitivity that we eat it with.
Nino GruettkeMots clés happiness food rationality sensitivity enjoyment positive-thinking
I am an atheist, a rationalist and a humanist.
Pierre BertonMots clés atheism atheist rationality humanist
Careful. When you dabble too much with reason life becomes nothing but a process of dying.
Lucas Mascotto-CarboneMots clés individuality reason death rationality thought-provoking rationalism relgion
In the Hindu religion, one can[not] have freedom of speech. A Hindu must surrender his freedom of speech. He must act according to the Vedas. If the Vedas do not support the actions, instructions must be sought from the Smritis, and if the Smritis fail to provide any such instructions, he must follow in the footsteps of the great men.
He is not supposed to reason. Hence, so long as you are in the Hindu religion, you cannot expect to have freedom of thought
Mots clés religion freedom-of-thought freedom-of-speech rationality hinduism great-men vedas puranas smritis
People who have cut their teeth on philosophical problems of rationality, knowledge, perception, free will and other minds are well placed to think better about problems of evidence, decision making, responsibility and ethics that life throws up.
Simon BlackburnMots clés perception knowledge reason free-will philosophy mind epistemology rationality evidence minds
To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaMots clés thinking reason logic rationality argument challenge ego agreement disagreement debate self-development consensus improvement unanimity social-networking twitter tweet social-networks
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