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“they are making this complicated just to make me more confused.”

Logic Warren Buffett Intellectualization

Author:Dmitry Dyatlov

“why is he torturing logic in order to rescue his rightness from the evidence?”

Logic Denial Sam Harris Intellectualization

Author:Bret Weinstein

“That is your disease: you want to capture life in formulas of your own. You want to embrace all aspects of life with your intellect instead of allowing yourself to be embraced by life. You want to create the world all over again each time, instead of enjoying it as it is.”

Life Acceptance Embodiment Intellectualization

Book:An Interrupted Life: The Diaries, 1941-1943; and Letters from Westerbork

Source: An Interrupted Life: The Diaries, 1941-1943; and Letters from Westerbork

“Infantilism, the main characteristic of today's "developed societies", animalizes man by humanizing animals, enslaves man by "liberating" nature and stupefies man by intellectualizing machines. In a word, infantilism demeans man by exalting everything that is inhuman.”

Animal Rights Environmentalism Degradation Inhumanity Animal Liberation Childishness Infantilization Intellectualization Anthropomorphization Infantilism

Author:Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

“This finding or inventing of words for incomprehensible things has nothing to do with understanding. On the contrary, if we could get rid of half of our words perhaps we should have a better chance of a certain understanding.”

Emotional Intelligence Jargon Hahaha Intellectualization

Book:The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution

Source: The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution

“Today we demand justice for the oppressed. We no longer accept atrocities as the inescapable fate of the defenceless. We desire and expect a better future. But when confronted with the enormity of injustice and what it demands of us, we retreat into the familiar ritual of intellectualization and moral posturing, recycling lofty liberal ideals from a safe distance. We avoid the intimate knowledge of suffering without which we will never understand the imperative of human rights.”

Injustice Human Rights Oppression Abstraction Distancing Intellectualization Theorizing

Book:In Search of A Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey

Source: In Search of A Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey