It has never been my goal to be a pure rationalist. The stronger the logic that one can muster with inadequate information the more fragile the result.
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He was truth’s own imbecile, having no variable in the equation for, “but the crowd doesn’t like it.”
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As threatening as chaos can be, it is important to maintain perspective. When we see and insist upon order everywhere and at all times, we’ve traded education for self-satisfaction.
A valuable book, A Human Strategy, aphorism 387
387 A valuable book may be torn to pieces without diminishing the human spirit, just so long as the words have already been read and understood. To feel the loss of the book — at its material destruction, even though one had already digested its contents fully and had aligned oneself toward its overall direction — is evidence that one values the non-human being over human becoming , the static thing over the dynamic process . In response to the fear of our unknowable future we would rather freeze ourselves into a single stage of growth at the expense of the entire metamorphosis. A Human Strategy ** The Mechanics of Virtue ** Post-Atheism