“Questioning our own motives, and our own process, is critical to a skeptical and scientific outlook. We must realize that the default mode of human psychology is to grab onto comforting beliefs for purely emotional reasons, and then justify those beliefs to ourselves with post-hoc rationalizations.” HumansReasonReligionBeliefProcessRealizingPsychologyAtheismEmotionalCriticalPostsMotiveJustifyQuestioningOutlookComfortingSkepticalDefault Author:Steven Novella
“[P]rescientific people... could never guess the nature of physical reality beyond the tiny sphere attainable by unaided common sense. Nothing else ever worked, no exercise from myth, revelation, art, trance, or any other conceivable means; and notwithstanding the emotional satisfaction it gives, mysticism, the strongest prescientific probe in the unknown, has yielded zero.” PeopleGivingMeanArtRealityReligionCommonEmotionalExerciseSatisfactionMythTinyCommon SenseRevelationsMysticismStrongestZeroSpheresTrance Author:E. O. Wilson
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.” GivingArtPhilosophyReligionValuesFriendshipRelationshipEmotionalFriendsSurvivalNovelistsUnnecessaryGood FriendReal FriendsMy Best FriendTrue FriendshipBest FriendMy FriendshipAbout FriendshipNew FriendsLove And FriendshipFriendship LoveFriendship MemoriesLost FriendshipOne Line FriendshipEssayistsBest FriendshipFriendship DayFriend LoveGreat FriendshipFemale FriendshipLasting FriendshipFriends And EnemiesNew FriendshipOne FriendFriendship GardenHappy Friendship DayFriends For LifeCircle Of FriendsDeep FriendshipBeing A Good FriendThat One FriendSweet FriendshipGood FriendshipFemale FriendsAwesome FriendshipFriendships And RelationshipsHeart Touching FriendsMeaningful FriendshipUnique FriendshipSweet FriendHeart Touching FriendshipCelebrating With FriendsI Have No FriendsThank You FriendshipNice FriendSongs And FriendshipNice FriendshipValued FriendsTouching FriendshipMeaning Of FriendshipValue Of Love Author:C. S. Lewis