I do care. That's why I hunt them. But if you've seen what I have, then you learn to deal with the murders and disappearances. You learn to push it aside and move on. The other life isn't here anymore. This new world has its own rules. Survival of the fittest is one of them. If you're hoping for kindness and pity, don't hold your breath.
Susanne WinnackerTag: survival rationality zombie-apocalypse
It is not man who is the enemy of the human species. It is the irrational; it is the spiritual when it is divorced from the material; from the lesson in one beating heart or one bleeding vein.
Anne RiceTag: spirituality rationality
Within Hobbes’ depiction of the motives for conflict. . . there is a problematic in which the grave threat that human beings pose to other human beings is not constituted simply by the structures of human passions, interests, and desires, nor by the addition of a self-deceptive and egotistical desire for recognition and proof of one’s perhaps illusory power. In this moment, it is the very rationality of other humans, reason in the broad sense, understood as roughly equal to oneself in both capacity and structure, that poses such a threat
Gregory B. SadlerTag: politics reason human-nature danger rationality conflict
(...) rationality is a very narrowly restricted skill.
Noam ChomskyTag: rationality
Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. Instead, a balance - a teaming up of the internal rivals - is optimal for brains. ... Some balance of the emotional and rational systems is needed, and that balance may already be optimized by natural selection in human brains.
David EaglemanTag: science emotion balance rationality
To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.
Eliezer YudkowskyTag: humility rationality modesty rationalism
It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery.
Zoë HellerTag: atheism rationality failure-of-imagination
A true rationalist ought to be effective in the real world.
Eliezer YudkowskyTag: cynicism rationality rationalism
Doing worse with more knowledge means you are doing something very wrong.
Eliezer YudkowskyTag: knowledge rationality rationalism
When...did it become irrational to dislike religion, any religion, even to dislike it vehemently? When did reason get redescribed as unreason? When were the fairy stories of the superstitious placed above criticism, beyond satire? A religion was not a race. It was an idea, and ideas stood (or fell) because they were strong enough (or too weak) to withstand criticism, not because they were shielded from it. Strong ideas welcomed dissent.
Salman RushdieTag: reason religion dissent satire criticism rationality
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