“Wrong way to think about it. Don't try to figure it out all at once.”
Source: The Interpretation of Murder
“When you kill a man, You steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, Rob his children of a father.”
Source: The Kite Runner
“Doctrines which can stand the trial of logic and reason can do without persecuting skeptics.”
Source: Omnipotent Government
“Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.”
“Logic, if used as the main instrument for thinking, frustrates the functions of the mind—it doesn‘t improve them.
Great ideas are the result of undirected curiosity, creativity, serendipity and higher pleasures.”
“He likes things that make sense, and this word explains everything he knows about me. It makes perfect sense. Unless you don't know me, in which case it's delusional, irrational, and absurd.”
Source: Toil & Trouble
“It's been said before: 'The sleep of reason produces monsters.”
Source: Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
“it seems that once again people engage in a search for evidence that is biased toward confirmation. Asked to assess the similarity of two entities, people pay more attention to the ways in which they are similar than to the ways in which they differ. Asked to assess dissimilarity, they become more concerned with differences than with similarities. In other words, when testing a hypothesis of similarity, people look for evidence of similarity rather than dissimilarity, and when testing a hypothesis of dissimilarity, they do the opposite. The relationship one perceives between two entities, then, can vary with the precise form of the question that is asked”
Source: How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
“We humans seem to be extremely good at generating ideas, theories, and explanations that have the ring of plausibility. We may be relatively deficient, however, in evaluating and testing our ideas once they are formed”
Source: How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
“God is the composer; you are the song.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience