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“There’s a simple reason why people don’t get involved with reason, logic and mathematics. They find these extremely difficult. There’s a simple reason why people get involved with faith, prayer, mysticism, meditation and mindfulness: they’re easy! Anyone can do them.”

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Book:One Right Answer, Infinite Wrong Answers: Why Humanity Is Addicted to Being Wrong

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“How would reality calculate the non-simplest answer without first calculating the simplest answer. Having calculated the simplest answer why would it then dismiss it? What would reality’s reason be for dismissing the simplest answer? No such reason is possible or conceivable. How would reality go about calculating the non-simplest answer, given that there are infinite of them? It is literally impossible for reality to calculate and implement anything other than the simplest answer. That is 100% guaranteed, and you are utterly irrational and illogical if you contend otherwise.”

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Book:One Right Answer, Infinite Wrong Answers: Why Humanity Is Addicted to Being Wrong

Source: One Right Answer, Infinite Wrong Answers: Why Humanity Is Addicted to Being Wrong

“We judge the street corner hustler or working-class criminal - from East Glasgow to East London - but we see a job as an investment banker, even in firms that launder the profits of drug cartels, fund terrorism, aid the global flow of arms, fuel war, oil spills, land grabs and generally fuck up the planet, as a perfectly legitimate, even aspirational occupation.”

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Book:Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

Source: Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

“That was acceptable, his father told him: you can always try to solve a problem by proving that no solution exists.”

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Author:James Glieck

“Errors have strange ways of creeping into even the greatest of minds. Many times they sneak past even cast iron doors of infallible logic and reason.”

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Book:Semmanthaka: The Second Quest for an Immortal gem

Source: Semmanthaka: The Second Quest for an Immortal gem

“The sooner Harkness stopped walking, the sooner he could stop walking. That was the simple truth. That was logic. But something went deeper, a truer, more frightening logic. Harkness was a part of the group that Garraty was a part of, a segment of his subclan. Part of a magic circle that Garraty belonged to. And if one part of that circle could be broken, any part of it could be broken.”

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Book:The Long Walk

Source: The Long Walk

“Submitting all of one's beliefs to the trials of reason and evidence is an unnatural skill, like literacy and numeracy, and must be instilled and cultivated.”

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Book:Rationality

Source: Rationality

“I beg you be logical in the design and structure of your work, in syntax . . . be a skillful builder, both in small things and in the whole . . . love words, as Flaubert did, exercise economy in your means, thrift in the use of words, precision and authenticity—then you will discover the secret of a wonderful thing: beauty clarity.”

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Author:Mikhail Kuzmin

“The best remedy for those who are frightened, lovely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere they can be alone, alone with the sky, nature and God. For then and only then can you feel that everything is as it should be and that God wants people to be happy amid nature's beauty and simplicity.”

Life God Nature

Book:The diary of a young girl

Source: The diary of a young girl

“In the war of ideas, which is the most important of all wars, the first thing to do is to destroy or discredit the enemy’s ideas,” Kier read. “It is effective to use the logic of the absurd for this, imposing false alternatives on the principle of choice between the executioner and the victim.”

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Book:The Outside Intervention

Source: The Outside Intervention

“A philosophic system is an integrated view of existence. As a human being you have no choice about the fact that you need a philosophy. Your only choice is whether you define your philosophy by a conscious, rational, disciplined process of thought and scrupulously logical deliberation - or let your subconscious accumulate a junk heap of unwarranted conclusions, false generalizations, undefined contradictions, undigested slogans, unidentified wishes, doubts and fears, thrown together by chance, but integrated by your subconscious into a kind of mongrel philosophy and fused into a single solid weight: self-doubt, like a ball and chain in the place where your mind's wings should have grown.”

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Author:Ayn Rand