Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Quotes

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What people really believe doesn't feel like a BELIEF, it feels like the way the world IS.

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

I only want power so I can get books.

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

I've lived the lives of all the characters in all my books, and all their mighty wisdom thunders in my head.

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Not every change is an improvement but every improvement is a change; you can't do anything BETTER unless you can manage to do it DIFFERENTLY, you've got to let yourself do better than other people!

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Trying and getting hurt can't possibly be worse for you than being... stuck.

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

And someday when the descendants of humanity have spread from star to star they won’t tell the children about the history of Ancient Earth until they’re old enough to bear it and when they learn they’ll weep to hear that such a thing as Death h...

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

You couldn't changed history. But you could get it right to start with. Do something differently the FIRST time around. This whole business with seeking Slytherin's secrets... seemed an awful lot like the sort of thing where, years later, you would l...

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it.

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

You can only arrive at mastery by practicing the techniques you have learned, facing challenges and apprehending them, using to the fullest the tools you have been taught, until they shatter in your hands and you are left in the midst of wreckage abs...

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

And then Harry Potter had launched in to a speech that was inspiring, yet vague. A speech to the effect that Fred and George and Lee had tremendous potential if they could just learn to be weirder. To make people's live surreal, instead of just surpr...

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

But it is cute. It's such a boy thing to do. Drop dead. Aw, you say the most romantic things.

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Without thinking about it at all, Harry stepped in front of Hermione. There was an intake of breath from behind him, and then a moment later Hermione brushed past and stepped in front of him. "Run, Harry!" she said. "Boys shouldn't have to be in dang...

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

I'm lazy! I hate work! Hate hard work in all its forms! Clever shortcuts, that's all I'm about!

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Someday," said the Boy-Who-Lived, "when the distant descendants of Homo sapiens are looking back over the history of the galaxy and wondering how it all went so wrong, they will conclude that the original mistake was when someone taught Hermione Gran...

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Then you get the wrong answer and you can't go to the Moon that way! Nature isn't a person, you can't trick them into believing something else, if you try to tell the Moon it's made of cheese you can argue for days and it won't change the Moon! What ...

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Sometimes Harry thought the deepest split in his personality wasn't anything to do with his dark side; rather it was the divide between the altruistic and forgiving Abstract Reasoning Harry, versus the frustrated and angry Harry In The Moment.

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

In a moral dilemma where you lost something either way, making the choice would feel bad either way, so you could temporarily save yourself a little mental pain by refusing to decide. At the cost of not being able to plan anything in advance, and at ...

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality