Quotes tagged Validation

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“She is only a subject of their compassion, which is a cowardly form of self-congratulation.”
The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“Rationalists think all god-men are frauds. That is the problem with rationalists. They are not rational enough. The world cannot be conned so easily by frauds. Great god-men are great because they really believe they are holy.”
The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“Very simply, it is a great example of our collective eagerness to disparage without knowledge or information about the thing disparaged, when the reward is the pleasure of sharing an attitude one knows is socially approved.”
How to Think
“The more useful a term is for marking my inclusion in a group, the less interested I will be in testing the validity of my use of that term against any kind of standard.”
How to Think
“Why would people ever think, when thinking deprives them of the pleasure of sharing an attitude one knows is socially approved?”
How to Think
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